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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 13:13:52 -0400
From:      "Jonathan M. Slivko" <freebsd-lists@slivko.org>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system
Message-ID:  <429360D0.60307@slivko.org>
In-Reply-To: <200505241200.55346.kirk@strauser.com>
References:  <200505241053.36377.kirk@strauser.com>	<200505241159.24346.kellers@njit.edu> <200505241200.55346.kirk@strauser.com>

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Where did you actually set that, in /etc/sysctl.conf?

Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:59, Tim Kellers wrote:
> 
> 
>>The acpi_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf might do the trick.
> 
> 
> Actually, it turns out that I have to set machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 
> for HTT to work now.
> 
> Speaking of which, is that tunable documented anywhere besides the HTT 
> security PR?  It's not in the 5.4-STABLE /usr/src/UPDATING or anyplace else 
> I've looked, so I was more than a bit surprised to find that such an 
> important default was changed without much notice.  I imagine a lot of 
> people read the PR much as I did: "blah, blah, theoretical, doesn't affect 
> me, next message"...

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