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Asked: 2026-06-02T09:57:28+00:00

I recently bought a Moto Atrix 2 mobile. When I tried to look at

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I recently bought a Moto Atrix 2 mobile. When I tried to look at the processor specs in the phone,
Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() returned 1.
/proc/cpuinfo too had information about just processor 0.

Out of curiosity I checked the same in my friend’s Samsung Galaxy S2, which is again a dual core phone. This too showed that no. of cores is 1.

I checked the same in my Moto xoom tablet which is again dual core. This time availableProcessors() returned 2 and cpuinfo also had both processor 0 and processor 1 details.

I am confused. Why some devices carry different information? Can someone explain this anomaly?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() only returns the number of online processors, so it will return 1 when the second core is sleeping. This is done in order to preserve power during less resource-intensive tasks.

    To see all available cores, look at /sys/devices/system/cpu/

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