How to know CPU support HT (Hyper-Threading) or not in Linux

Posted by cikul | Posted in Linux | Posted on 20-04-2009-05-2008

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180px-ht-pentium4Hyper-threading is Intel’s technology that enables multiprocessor servers to act as if they had twice as many processors installed. its simultaneous multithreading implementation in their Pentium 4, Atom, and Core i7 CPUs. A processor with hyper-threading enabled is treated by the operating system as two processors instead of one. In essence, HT Technology converts a single physical processor into two virtual processors. For more details see Intel’s site.

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