DL380 G6 with Dual E5520's showing 16 processors, why?

[GILLI_1]

Hi All,

I have recently purchased a DL380 G6 with dual E5520 quad processors, whan I look in Task manager it tells me I have 16 CPU's what is this about?

[marcus1234]

hmmmm

you have 2 quad-core Intel Xeon E5520 with Hyper Threading so 2cpu's with 4 cores and also 2 threads each running , so it shows as 16 cpu's.

its just the way it assigns tasks to itself , it just makes out it is somebody else doing it ,,kind of assigns the jobs and runs threads


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[GILLI_1]

So I would assume this will not affect S/W licensing as I still only have 2 CPU's with 4 cores for a total of 8 logical cpus and the hyper threading is providing multiple paths to the cores thus showing 16 CPU's?

[Calvin Staples]

That is correct, if the licensing is by socket the number of cores or threads will not effect licensing.

Cal

[marcus1234]

no license issue this is just a representation ..

.hint :)


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