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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Brad Penoff <penoff@cs.ubc.ca>,
	Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>, Janardhan Iyengar <iyengar@conncoll.edu>
Subject: Re: CPU utilization
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Randall Stewart <rrs@cisco.com> writes:
> machdep.hyperthreading_allowed: 0

Note that enabling hyperthreading is more likely to harm performance
than to help it.  You should just disable it in the BIOS, and run a UP
kernel.

DES
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