[SOLVED] About CPUs, threads and ffmpeg

Hello,

Ffmpeg has an option called threads which speeds up encoding. I have an AMD Phenom Triple-Core Processor and I ran this command to check for threads so I can use that info for the threads option of ffmpeg.

Here is the output of lscpu

Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s): 64-bit CPU(s): 3 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 3 CPU socket(s): 1 Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD CPU family: 16 Model: 2 Stepping: 3 CPU MHz: 2100.000 Virtualization: AMD-V L1d cache: 64K L1i cache: 64K L2 cache: 512K L3 cache: 2048K

Does this mean that my machine sees 6 cores from the info above?

i.e Three cores plus one thread per core = six cores

Let me know if my assumption is correct. Thanks

Originally Posted by H5X00R Does this mean that my machine sees 6 cores from the info above? i.e Three cores plus one thread per core = six cores

Very strange "logic".
You have 3 cores, each of which can run 1 thread - i.e. not hiper-threaded.

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Hello,

I found this link which explains CPUs and threads counts in linux
http://dbastreet.com/blog/?p=469

So, I was wrong about having six cores. My system sees four cores max. i.e 3 cores plus one thread and hyperthreading is unavailable in my bios.