
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>wrote:
This is a follow up of a feature request which recently appeared on
bug tracker: https://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=427
I don't know whether the proposal makes sense for psutil per-se but it certainly made me think about multiprocessing.cpu_count() and the fact
it currently returns the number of virtual CPUs (physical + logical).
Given that multiple processes cannot take any advantage of hyper
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:59:46 +0200 "Giampaolo Rodola'" <g.rodola@gmail.com> wrote: psutil that threading
technology
Of course they can. The CPU doesn't distinguish between different kinds of "threads", they can either belong to the same process or to different ones.
Regards
Antoine.
Antoine's claim is backed by a document written by Intel: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/performance-insights-to-intel-hyper.... Specifically, in the section "Software Use of Intel HT Technology".