Why /proc/cpuinfo displays more number of CPU cores than physical CPU cores ?

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Issue

  • The '/proc/cpuinfo' displays more number of CPU core than physical CPU cores present on the system.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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