[TriLUG] SMP, Intel Pentium D CPU, single core ????????

Robert Dale robdale at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 19:04:52 EDT 2007


Pentium D is a dual core cpu  Not to be confused with Core2, which is
a completely different architecture, that can have dual or quad cores.

-- 
Robert Dale

On 3/11/07, John Mitchell <john280z at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to post this to the list, maybe someone can point me in the
> right direction.
>
> I have this Boxen: Intel Pentium D, 2.8 GHz, 1 Gig Dual Channel ram,
> ASrock 775Dual-880Pro  motherboard.
> This is not a Dual Core CPU chip, but..........
>
> Ubuntu Edgy Server install, "uname -a" :
> johnm at bravo:~$ uname -a
> Linux bravo 2.6.17-10-server #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:29:32 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Running "top" with 3 each "md5sum /dev/urandom" and pressing the "1"
> key gives me:
>
> top - 18:08:49 up  8:16,  3 users,  load average: 3.01, 1.43, 0.55
>
> Tasks:  76 total,   4 running,  72 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu0  :  6.0%us, 94.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Cpu1  :  1.7%us, 98.3%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Mem:   1035380k total,   177560k used,   857820k free,     7188k buffers
> Swap:  1951888k total,        0k used,  1951888k free,   110996k cached
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  4243 johnm     25   0  2740  596  504 R   94  0.1   2:21.49 md5sum
>  4242 johnm     25   0  2740  596  504 R   50  0.1   2:18.92 md5sum
>  4244 johnm     25   0  2740  596  504 R   50  0.1   1:33.95 md5sum
>  3957 root      15   0 32856 7936 3668 S    3  0.8   0:19.99 Xorg
>  4100 johnm     16   0  138m  43m  19m S    3  4.3   0:14.71 firefox-bin
>
>    Booting Damn Small Linux gives me 2 Penquins during Boot.
>    CPU ID = 0F34h, Prescott, 90mm
>
>    So do I have a Dual core cpu or what?????
>
> john mitchell
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