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Hi Brooks,

I'm curious, what should that option be set to if one does have an SMP
kernel running on 2x 2.4Ghz Xeon Processors (Hyper thread enabled)

Mine is currently set to
machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1

Thanks,
Stephane.

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From: "Brooks Davis" <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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Subject: Re: Dual P4 2.4Ghz Xeon With Hyperthreading enabled...


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> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:38:29PM -0700, Scott M. Likens wrote:
> > Well friend of mine just landed a Dual P4 2.4Ghz Xeon with
> > Hyperthreading Enabled, and yet I know there's a hyperthreading option
> > in 4.8-RELEASE but I don't see one at ALL in 5.1?
> >=20
> > am I suddenly blind or do I need to cvsup to CURRENT to take proper
> > advantage?
>
> There is no option in current.  Instead, you use the sysctl
> machdep.hlt_logical_cpus to indicate if you want to use the logical
> cpus.
>
> -- Brooks
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