Re: cores vs hyperthreads

On Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:41:13 -0400
Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> wrote:

> My 6 core processor shows up as 12 CPUs due to
> Intel's HyperThreading.  Is there a way to tell
> in gkrellm, which are the hyperthread displays?
> 

Gkrellm gets data from /proc/stat and hyperthreaded CPUs aren't
differentiated there, so you can't tell from inside of gkrellm.  If you
look at /proc/cpuinfo I think you will find they are paired sequentially.
That is processor 0 and processor 1 will probably have the same core id and
so on,

Bill