From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 15 02:23:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56FB716A407 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:23:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A637643D49 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:22:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x37so117707nfc for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:22:58 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=T2fOsDL6Z2l4M1tOIiCV9pByV8NMP7DYVjztil+48FNNlwPPS38lHLCObq+jYczEStz7A/D3Xw3hQZL1KWR8+VhIaCUpZ0pqnrnf+CVrJTJk+Rbgy0GalzjjB0usQwB1EfZlQEo3mN8ui7Xi7WRjql29fPTzo0hcModDEu3P05A= Received: by 10.48.4.17 with SMTP id 17mr104300nfd.1163557378302; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:22:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.203.2 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:22:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:22:58 -0800 From: "Jeff Mohler" To: "Juha Saarinen" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1163545085.492.20.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <8cb6106e0611141504sa4fbe00q8aeda6f869422d26@mail.gmail.com> <1163548016.492.26.camel@columbus.webtent.org> Cc: Robert Fitzpatrick , FreeBSD Subject: Re: Dual core processors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:23:00 -0000 I thought that since we both had HTT tags in the CPU ID, that we had it. ;) On 11/14/06, Juha Saarinen wrote: > On 11/15/06, Jeff Mohler wrote: > > My dmesg matches yours Juha.. > > > > Would enabling Hyperthreading increase any of my processing power? > > Well, if you have the D830, no, because it doesn't have HTT support. :) > > As a general question, the answer is yes and no. Depends on your > application basically, as well as the operating system itself. It's > one of those questions that'll lead to long and detailed flame wars, > unfortunately. > > -- > Juha > http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha >