see how many threads i have in cpu

No, you have two. It’s showing two online CPU. Could be two virtual CPUs if you are looking at a VM. You didn’t include the rest of the lscpu info to determine that.

You are showing 2 CPUs configured in 2 sockets. Each socket has 1 core and each core has 1 thread.

2 * 1 * 1 = still 2.

I’m guessing it’s a VM you’re dealing with.

Yes, your actual physical CPU (the Silver 4214) has 2 threads per core. 12 cores, 24 threads.

In your VM that is not necessarily true. It depends on your VM’s configuration.

When you create your VM you configure how many total cores you want to present to the VM and how many sockets to emulate as this may have an impact on (mostly Microsoft) licensing if something is licensed per-core or per-socket.

It looks like you gave that VM 2 CPUs cores and configured it for 2 sockets, so one thread per core/socket so that the total computing threads is at “2”.

It’s virtualized. I’m 99.5% sure it will not matter for you. And if you do feels it matter, just change it. Power down the VM, change the configuration, power it back up.

I know that it’s already answered, but you could run htop and visually see how many threads

Or you could cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i processor

Or use the nproc command

Any of those should give a straight forward answer

Here are the nitty gritty details on virtual CPUs, cores, sockets and NUMA in VMware. It’s a long read. Most people probably don’t care about these nuances.