https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500745
--- Comment #11 from John <ilikef...@waterisgone.com> --- Created attachment 179284 --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=179284&action=edit The system monitor and the "Total CPU Use" are lying about the cores and the Info Center is agreeing with them BTW, here's the proof that your System Monitor software is lying about the hardware and consistency with it makes no sense when it comes displaying information about the hardware. I followed the tutorial in that link at my previous (nr. 7) comment and add in GRUB-Customizer (that I already had installed) on its "General settings" tab under the "Kernel parameters" section this: ' maxcpus=2', so the whole line looks like this: quiet maxcpus=2 Then clicked on the "Save" button and rebooted the laptop. Since changing a config and rebooting can't possibly trigger a "Transformers" movie-like change in CPU's hardware, it's clear that the software is not lying about the hardware as the CPU still has the same hardware cores / threads. It's just Linux that is making them appear less, probably by reporting less of them. So I don't see much sense to keep the "Hardware" section of the Info Center tied / in sync or how you call it "consistent" with the system monitor that can tell lies depending on the situation. BTW, lscpu now shows: CPU(s): 8 On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1 Off-line CPU(s) list: 2-7 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz CPU family: 6 Model: 142 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 And kinfo, like its graphical counterpart: Processors: 2 × Intel® Core™ i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz As I said before, I want the hardware section in this software, like in any other, to show me information about the hardware, not how the software sees it, uses it, limits it. Leave that for the resource monitors. It would be great if you would separate the non-changeable parts (the hardware) form the changeable parts (the software, even when it's about the hardware) If I buy a Wi-Fi 7 network adapter and connect it to a Wi-Fi 5 AP, it doesn't mean that my hardware is Wi-Fi 5 capable only. Anyway, I'm starting to get tired of explaining that I want to see hardware specs and those should be as accurate as possible. And it's pretty disappointing to see that the kernel and lscpu developers, at least decide to use CPUs, cores, threads interchangeably and on top of that lscpu, kinfo(center), can show wrong information about the hardware just because I changed only little kernel configuration. So, it's cool that the Info Center has a dedicated CPU info page, but it's bad that the page shows wrong / incorrect information too by default: CPU(s), and even more when somebody plays with the kernel configuration. It seems that there's is absolutely 0 software than can show accurate hardware information about the CPU when someone plays with that kernel config as I tested HardInfo2 and even CPU-X and even those fail this test by showing 2 cores only (HardInfo though still show the correct 8 threads, like lscpu). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
