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From: Paolo Pisati <flag@gufi.org>
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Subject: Re: Confused about HyperThreading and Performance
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:28:25PM -0500, Daniel Ellard wrote:
> 
> My questions:

did you try setting:

machdep.cpu_idle_hlt: 1 ?

It should help on HTT system.

-- 
Paolo

Italian FreeBSD User Group: http://www.gufi.org