From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 26 08:03:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775CE16A402 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:03:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF31013C45D for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:03:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so153084ana for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:03:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=ipkyVNkWRVEBwgz3JwjkRuvloHBNAIZkJE//ESm2pszZHeXh/CbhGI2Rr82euG8mz7qHWy6adTGuc0WK2P3/wwVEJyMwr7Xavf4RFH53loPLifX/irgzjlbBnQHeawnBK0MrirvRwfSJqK7S+PV1p7DNsXnNoOcimZrGKgbLrHQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=uM/Qxe8e7HOy1uQM/aNXr7ylaXn5ZQ/D0A1JOmf19ug7MFL3pdEvKa8eIa7lbOpfBr30QTWKtswWbBFgrH4TziWz2qWp6INpq96q9xAVJw6Jk6uAgfylenVzvibyJZ9Z9T7KxXm0BAVGq59v+D/Nipq92yOLxSylGR3/QSVp/RA= Received: by 10.100.214.8 with SMTP id m8mr878750ang.1177574635092; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:03:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.197.3 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:03:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:03:55 +0800 From: "Adrian Chadd" Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com To: "Tom Evans" In-Reply-To: <1177506261.5651.0.camel@zoot.mintel.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <00e301c7872d$03e1db80$0c00a8c0@Artem> <462F3E60.7010109@thekeelecentre.com> <026301c78738$460bdf50$0c00a8c0@Artem> <1177506261.5651.0.camel@zoot.mintel.co.uk> X-Google-Sender-Auth: af2365c6c2749e11 Cc: Artem Kuchin , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Top not showing 4 cpus on 2 xeons with HT 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: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:03:56 -0000 On 25/04/07, Tom Evans wrote: > Yes, quite easily. anyone have any recent information about this? some people say "HT sucks for almost all workloads", others say "recent scheduler improvements make HT more useful".. is there anything reasonably authoritative? adrian