Help for Current Versions of MX
When asking for help, use Quick System Info from MX Tools. It will be properly formatted using the following steps.
1. Click on Quick System Info in MX Tools
2. Right click in your post and paste.
On a new laptop, QSI shows 8 cores, when it's really 12. (On a Linux Mint flashdrive, it correctly showed 12).
Is this a potential problem with proper functioning?
Can it be fixed?
TIA
The specs for that CPU show four perfomance cores and eight efficient cores; it's one of those fancy new designs that combine different types of cores.
My guess is that the version of whatever command Bullseye is using to get the number of cores predates the introduction of that type of CPU, while Mint's is newer...does "lscpu" show eight cores too?
MXPI = MX Package Installer
QSI = Quick System Info from menu
The MX Test repository is mostly backports; not the same as Debian testing
I see that Debian 12's utils-linux's changelog, the package that provides lscpu, shows adding support for newer CPUs, so I'll try a backport to MX 21 AHS.
MXPI = MX Package Installer
QSI = Quick System Info from menu
The MX Test repository is mostly backports; not the same as Debian testing
Hmmm--there's a lot of methods to get CPU info in Linux. Can you install the "system-monitoring-center" package from our MX repos and see if it has the same issues with CPU numbers?
I did backport and install the util-linux from Bookworm, and it runs fine, except that a change in its output broke an lscpu command that I was using to monitor current CPU frequency in the KDE taskbar, so I had to research and use another little script.
MXPI = MX Package Installer
QSI = Quick System Info from menu
The MX Test repository is mostly backports; not the same as Debian testing
Here's the intel spec sheet on that processor: https://www.intel.ca/content/www/ca/en/ ... tions.html
It says that it has 8 Efficient cores and 4 Performance cores. I'm wondering if the report would change if the QSI was pulled when the computer is under load?
HP 15; ryzen 3 5300U APU; 500 Gb SSD; 8GB ram
HP 17; ryzen 3 3200; 500 GB SSD; 12 GB ram
Idea Center 3; 12 gen i5; 256 GB ssd;
In Linux, newer isn't always better. The best solution is the one that works.
Stevo wrote: Tue Jun 20, 2023 6:53 pm
Hmmm--there's a lot of methods to get CPU info in Linux. Can you install the "system-monitoring-center" package from our MX repos and see if it has the same issues with CPU numbers?
System-monitoring-center shows "Cores (Physical-Logical): 12-16
(BTW - that's a pretty cool bit of software. Thanks!).
Stevo wrote: Tue Jun 20, 2023 6:53 pm
I did backport and install the util-linux from Bookworm, and it runs fine, except that a change in its output broke an lscpu command that I was using to monitor current CPU frequency in the KDE taskbar, so I had to research and use another little script.
Should I download something else?
Newbie question: It doesn't really matter if QSI reports wrong, does it? Will the computer still do what it's supposed to do?
j2mcgreg wrote: Tue Jun 20, 2023 7:08 pm
I'm wondering if the report would change if the QSI was pulled when the computer is under load?
That's pretty interesting. If I can remember, I'll check it out next time I do something intensive.
As an aside, for anyone like me who hadn't run into efficient cores before, a tidy little How-To Geek article.
Off-topic, I wonder how that's going to work with virtualization (but let's not discuss here).
