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gnome-system-monitor package

  1. Bug #162936
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 162936

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Thomas Babut (thbabut) wrote :

It's not a bug, it's a feature. :)

You see 2 processors, because of the hyper-threading technology from Intel. You can read more about this here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading

And I don't see an excessive CPU load in your top output.