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Subject: Re: How do I turn off hyperthreading on 6.0 ?
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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.  :)

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Freddie Cash
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