Re: FC10/rawhide on Lenovo S10 Netbook

["Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" <D Mierzejewski icm edu pl>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:51:49PM +0100, epate wrote:
> I recently installed FC10 on a Lenovo S10 Netbook and have now updated
> it to rawhide. With the exception of some tweaking to reduce screen
> font sizes to something more suitable for its small screen, it was
> a surprisingly easy installation.
> 
> I noticed, however, that the "Guidance Power Management" shows two CPUs
> (and I assume that the Atom is not a multi-core processor).
> 
> Any ideas?

That's because Atom N270 has "hyperthreading" and shows up as two cores.
In my tests using x264 to encode a short clip, using two threads gives
about 12% speed-up.

Regards,
R.

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