Athlon II x4 620

[Ric Moore]

On 02/12/2012 07:11 AM, Haneef Bashir wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Ulrich Baustian<u.baustian at ymail.com>  wrote:
>> I have the impression that only one of the 4 processors of the Athlon II x4
>> 620 of my ASRock motherboard is working under Ubuntu. Ubuntu seems very slow
>> compared to Windows. How can I check how many processors are working? Is
>> there any DEVICE MANAGER like in Windows, where I can see how many
>> processors are activated?
> try System monitor. That should tell you everything.

Good call. Plus, is the OP running 32bit or 64bit?? I'm running 6 AMD 
cores and when they are needed, the others take up the slack. By direct 
observation, using System Monitor, I watched Java6 stick mainly to one 
core, right up to 100% on a heavy java load. Then I installed Java7 and 
watched the other cores click in. ~SWEET~ But I rarely see more than 3-4 
cores active at one time. Lotsa memory helps. 16gigs is fairly cheap 
now, and I usually hold out for really cheap. :) Ric