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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:55:03PM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote:
> Yes, it will work fine.  I have a dual xeon 2.0ghz dell workstation.  It=
=20
> will work with and without Hyperthreading enabled.  With HTT, you will se=
e=20
> four cpus.. without 2.

Of course, you'll probably want to run without HTT enabled unless you
have a special (e.g. FP-intensive) workload that actually benefits
from it, otherwise it's a performance killer.

Kris

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