1 process, 2 threads, how many cpus?

[Nicolas Blais]

As I was looking around the net for some information on pthreading in FreeBSD, 
I came across something that got my attention:

"The native user threads cannot concurrently run more than one thread on 
separate processors at one time. If you are running a single process with 
multiple CPU-intensive threads in hopes of utilizing multiple processors, you 
must use Linuxthreads to get this performance."
(http://www.unobvious.com/bsd/freebsd-threads.html)

Is this still applicable now (FreeBSD 5.4/6/CURRENT)? 

I'm writing a software that runs 1 process and multiple threads (with pthread) 
that performs calculations and I was wondering if on a SMP system the threads 
will run on an independant cpu.  It would be quite pointless to have all 
threads of the same process sharing a single cpu.

Also, no matter how many threads I create within a process, 'top' only reports 
2 threads.  The following 'top' run reports my software ('aite') as using 2 
threads (when it actually created 4):

CPU states: 99.2% user,  0.0% nice,  0.8% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Mem: 257M Active, 1422M Inact, 189M Wired, 85M Cache, 112M Buf, 49M Free
Swap: 2000M Total, 2000M Free

  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
89728 nicblais    2  20    0  4420K  2384K ksesig   0:18 77.44% aite

Any insight appreciated,
Nicolas.

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