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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:19:58 -0800
From:      Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do I turn off hyperthreading on 6.0 ?
Message-ID:  <200601271019.59088.fcash@ocis.net>
In-Reply-To: <E1F2QeE-0004UQ-PW@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
References:  <E1F2QeE-0004UQ-PW@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>

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On Friday 27 January 2006 02:16 am, Pete French wrote:
> I though that machdep.hyperthreading_allowed had to be set to 1 to
> turn on hyperthreading ? I have a dual processor HP blade, and
> when I boot it up with an SMP kernel I get 4 CPU's. Setting that flag
> does not have any effect!

Disable it in the BIOS.  The kernel can't use what isn't advertised as 
available.  :)

-- 
Freddie Cash
fcash@ocis.net



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