Oddities in System Monitor - Two Processors Listed?

Hello, I just noticed for the first time that there are two processors listed under the resources tab in the system monitor. They move similarly, but not exactly the same. Is this a design of the atom processor?

Also, It says I have 1.5 GB of memory, but I'm pretty sure I bought the 512mb version of the aspire one....
I do have a 1.0 GB Swap partition, which is listed next to it, is the first number a combination of the two?

Anyone else have this, or can explain this?

 

The reason 2 CPUs are listed is because the Atom CPU is Hyper Threaded Like Pentium 4HT chips were, it allows the CPU to use parts of it that are not in use to run a second thread, its not as good as a dual core cpu but in most HT / dual core optimized programs you can see as much as a 20% gain, see http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/int ... ,1947.html for more info, as for the extra RAM I wouldn't know as I'm now using Kubuntu I cant check

 

re: Memory. You've got it correct in one, it's counting the swap partition.

 

I ran my ram up to 600+ by opening lots of programs... my Swap drive still showed nothing in the resources, with all of it being it the ram section. This could still be the machine just counting the two together however I didn't notice any read/write activity indicating swapping.... swappiness set to 100 at the moment.

Also, a swap drive should not be counted towards RAM in the bios.... or while running memtest.

 

I'm running Ubuntu eee on my A110L with 512MB, and Performance Monitor reports 492MB (as expected).