[fpc-devel] AMD & Intel CPUCount

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Ludo Brands wrote:
> On 27/12/2012 23:06, Ewald wrote:
>> Oh, and the important part: The function has been tested on a Core 2 Duo
>> and an Intel i7, and works correctly. If someone would be so kind to
>> test it on some other CPU's that would be great! [I'm not 100% of the
>> hexadecimal of `AuthenticAMD` you see]
>>
> Inconsistent results here with hyperthreading:
> Xeon W3530 (4 cores hyperthreading) reports #CPU cores: 8. /proc/cpuinfo 
> lists 8 processors and 4 cpu cores
> Intel Atom 230 (1 core hyperthreading) reports #CPU cores: 1 while 
> /proc/cpuinfo reports 2 processors and 1 cpu core.

> AMD Athlon X2 5600+ reports #CPU cores: 2. /proc/cpuinfo reports 2 
> processors and 2 cores.

Also be careful of the situation where an OS supports hot-pluggable CPU 
cards and has been told to shut one down for maintenance. Solaris 
definitely does this on SPARC, I don't know about its position on x86, 
and I don't know about Linux's general position.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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