4 CPU's in Task Manager

[Sleurhutje]

While my server has only 2 Xeon 2.8GHz CPU's installed and there are no more
CPU slots available (Compaq ProLiant ML350R03). All stats show different
values when running applications. Running Win2K SP4 fresh installation.

Is this due to SP4? My other server (Compaq ProLiant ML350T02 with Dual PIII
1.26GHz Win2K SP3) shows 2 CPU's correctly.


Jeroen.

 

[Dr Zoidberg]

While my server has only 2 Xeon 2.8GHz CPU's installed and there are
no more CPU slots available (Compaq ProLiant ML350R03). All stats
show different values when running applications. Running Win2K SP4
fresh installation.

Is this due to SP4? My other server (Compaq ProLiant ML350T02 with
Dual PIII
1.26GHz Win2K SP3) shows 2 CPU's correctly.

I have a new Compaq server running 2k sp4 that does the same thing.
Whilst I'd like to think that sp4 has magically doubled the processor power
this is obviously not the case.
Annoyingly I didn't check task manager before adding SP4 so I don't know if
the problem was there before hand.

--
Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger"

"Then I hide until it goes away"

www.drzoidberg.co.uk

 

[Sleurhutje]

I replace the disks in my RAID with empty ones, installed Win2K again but
with Win2K SP3 and guess what... Only 2 CPU's in the Task Manager!!!

But this only happens on the ProLiant Server with Xeon CPU's. I just
installed SP4 on the The ML350 with two PIII CPU's and this machine still
shows the two CPU's.

Servers are with the latest Compaq Firmware (checked this just in case) and
are equal in configuration except for the CPU's (and other server specific
hardware, but with the same RAID controllers, disks etc.).


Jeroen

 

[Jerold Schulman]

While my server has only 2 Xeon 2.8GHz CPU's installed and there are no more
CPU slots available (Compaq ProLiant ML350R03). All stats show different
values when running applications. Running Win2K SP4 fresh installation.

Is this due to SP4? My other server (Compaq ProLiant ML350T02 with Dual PIII
1.26GHz Win2K SP3) shows 2 CPU's correctly.


Jeroen.

If hyper-threading on your P4 processors is enabled, this is expected (and
desirable) behavior.

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Sleurhutje]

Yeah, thought it might have something to do with HT. But what is the
desirable part in this story? What are the benefits of the doubled monitors?


Jeroen.

 

[Paul Dietrich]

Yeah, thought it might have something to do with HT. But what is the
desirable part in this story? What are the benefits of the doubled
monitors?

Basicly the advantages are the same as having parallell processors.
Only thing different is that its on the same chip.
A dramitic improvement with multitreaded apps (most windows apps are), and
with running simultaneous apps.

Jeroen.