[CentOS] redhat vs centos

Mon Nov 7 16:42:20 UTC 2011
John Beranek <john at redux.org.uk>

On 02/11/2011 10:31, Patrick Lists wrote:
> On 11/02/2011 11:02 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
>> What is a "socket" in their pricing model? The word can mean so many
>> different things...
> 
> Afaik it refers to a physical cpu socket. So they count actual cpu's, 
> not the amount of cores in each cpu.

I was just asking myself this very question the other day, and I
couldn't determine how many sockets you are using if you use, say, 2
_virtual_ processors.

John.

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