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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Alexandre Vieira <nullpt@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:54:45PM +0100, Alexandre Vieira wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
>   I have a machine with an Intel p4 3.2ghz FSB800 w/ 1MB L2 cache and
> I wanted to know your opinion about some kernel options that would
> boost the performance of this kind of processor.

Note that for a lot of workloads HT decreases performance.

Kris
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