hw.ncpu changes after recent updates

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Fri Jun 28 11:20:00 UTC 2019


On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 06:57:12PM +0400, Antranig Vartanian wrote:
>Hi J.
>
>Hyper-Threading[1] is a technology which allows running two threads on one
>core, however since Intel had multiple security issues, many people have
>turned it off, not sure you did that manually or has been changed during an
>update.
>
>so yes, if you had ncpu=8 before, now it should be 4 :)

Hi, many thanks for clarifying.
-- 
J.
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