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Subject: Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly
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At 08:15 PM 08/12/2004, Crist=F3v=E3o Dalla Costa wrote:

>I've disabled SMP with the kern.smp.disabled=3D1 sysctl and I'll see what=
=20
>happens next. Strangely though the kernel seems to think the system has=20
>only one cpu despite it being hyperthreaded:

You want to turn HT off in the BIOS.  The scheduler will not make use of=20
it, and in fact will most likely hurt performance.

         ---Mike=20