On 8/17/05, Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marquez, Chris apparently said,on my timestamp of 17/08/2005 2:30 AM: > > Be careful...with Intel HYPER THREADING two physical CPU is reported and > > seen as four physical CPU. > > > > > When you do cat /proc/cpuinfo, check out the flags field. > If it has the string "ht" in it, it's a hyper thread chip. > > -- > Cheers > Nuno Souto > in sunny Sydney, Australia > dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx Also- check dmesg for mapping of the hyperthreaded cpu onto the runqueue of the physical processor. In top, one can see on a lightly loaded server, processes run on the 2 physical CPUs first (on a RHEL ES kernel - update 5). Paul -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l