From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 3 16:06:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8082216A400 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 16:06:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E221C43D45 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 16:06:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBDB291F81; Wed, 3 May 2006 13:06:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 65221-10; Wed, 3 May 2006 13:06:27 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A1E291F7B; Wed, 3 May 2006 13:06:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E6A3B8B93D; Wed, 3 May 2006 13:06:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C328B768; Wed, 3 May 2006 13:06:24 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:06:24 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Zimmerman, Eric" In-Reply-To: <12AAD6CC50A25841834F43955F39B66E042ADC4F@qgaes001.conway.prod.con-way.com> Message-ID: <20060503130544.K1147@ganymede.hub.org> References: <12AAD6CC50A25841834F43955F39B66E042ADC4F@qgaes001.conway.prod.con-way.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hyperthreading in 6.x ... still frowned upon? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 16:06:28 -0000 On Wed, 3 May 2006, Zimmerman, Eric wrote: >> >> In 4.x, it was a 'shut it off' sort of deal .. my new amd64 don't > appear >> to have it enabled, but my older i386 server that I just upgraded to > 6.x >> does: >> >> >> Is it still something that I should disable, and, if so, how in 6.x? >> > > Can you disable it in the BIOS or do you dual boot this machine? Unfortunately, this is a remote server, and not HP, so getting at the BIOS is tricky ... :( Is there a sysctl variable that can be set for this? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664