On Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 2:30 AM Paul M. Foster <pa...@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> Folks: > > Here's a curious thing. I have a 10th gen Intel i3 CPU with four cores. > When I look at /proc/cpuinfo, it actually shows eight cores. There's a > line in the output of each core which is > > cpu cores : 4 > > But there are outputs for each of eight cores, numbered 0 through 7. > > Is it possible that there were eight cores on this CPU, and four of them > were non-working (I know it's typical to have non-working cores on a > die), and this file shows all the original cores? > > Or does someone have a better explanation? > Place Holders? > > Paul > Kenneth Parker >
