Task Manager/FOUR (4) Processors shown

[Guest]

Some insight, please. Am running a workstation w/ dual P4 Xeons @ 2.8GHZ
each & Win XP Pro on one hard drive (among six SCSI HDs). On another HD, I
have Win 2000 Pro installed. Task Manager shows TWO (2) Xeons just fine when
using W2K Pro, but TM shows FOUR (4) processors when using the HD w/ Win XP
Pro as the O/S. Any way to remedy this? Thanks.

 

[Kerry Brown]

Do the Xeons have hyperthreading? This is normal with hyperthreading
enabled.

 

[Guest]

Both are indeed Hyperthreaded and the feature is enabled. I can see your
point that it's normal since HT emulates a second threading, although not the
same way as the new "dual-core" processors. I wonder if the new dual-core
processors have eliminated HT or if they will show up as four in Task Mgr.?
Thanks for the info.

 

[Kerry Brown]

My understanding is that when dual core hypertheading CPUs are available
then two would show up as 8 CPUs in task manager.