[geeks] soon to take over the world..

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Fri Feb 6 17:28:42 CST 2004


On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 06:40:28PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> Although I don't know why Sol9 12/03 is showing "Virtual" processors in
> psrinfo:
> 
> bash-2.05# psrinfo -v
> Status of virtual processor 6 as of: 02/01/2004 18:36:14
>   on-line since 02/01/2004 18:34:59.
>   The sparcv9 processor operates at 336 MHz,
>         and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.

It's to do with UltraSPARC-IV support, where each physical proc has 2 (or
in the future, possibly more) virtual processors.  Changed with BugID
4841716.  You might also want to check out the new -p option to it.

  Scott



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