[O/S] Monitoring Tools (solved)

[Peter Zehnder]

Hello,

installed 12.7 on my desktop.
The desktop has a I7-4790 Cpu.
Intel declares it as 4 cores, 8 threads
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en ... 0-ghz.html

If i open stacer, i get CPU Cores 8
bpytop shows also 8 cores
htop the same

can a monitoring tool not show the correct info?

[Peter Zehnder]

strange thing is also, /proc/cpuinfo shows it correct

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 60
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
stepping : 3
microcode : 0x28
cpu MHz : 3916.907
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes

[zemu]

Off Topic

sudo dmidecode -t processor

[wizard10000]

Your CPU has four physical cores and four virtual cores. If you were to disable hyperthreading in BIOS Linux would only show four cores but you'd also only be able to run four threads. I don't know if there's a mechanism in Linux to determine the difference between a physical CPU core and a virtual one.

[Peter Zehnder]

thanks for the replies

my conclusion is, that stacer and other tools calls the cores CPU, where i would call them core.

cos i Have 1 CPU, which has then 4 cores and 4 or 8 threads.

is there a way to change this inside the tools?
i think it is NOT possible by myself, but ... it costs nothing to ask

[wizard10000]

is there a way to change this inside the tools?

Linux can tell the difference between a physical core and a virtual one but I'm not aware of a tool that does what you're looking for.

Doesn't mean there isn't a tool, it just means we've exhausted my knowledge on the subject

[Peter Zehnder]

I think, I use a conky and modify the config myself from CPU to Core.

thanks everyone for their input