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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:06:25 -0700
From:      "jeev" <jeev@boldinternet.net>
To:        "'Petri Helenius'" <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Dual 2.40ghz xeon w/hyperthreading
Message-ID:  <000101c30b4d$018ad950$0200a8c0@mainframe>
In-Reply-To: <016601c30b48$f12ec1b0$932a40c1@PHE>

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Yea, box will have a lot of load going through it, nothing small, I found
machdep.cpu_idle_hlt: 0 , im going to take people's recommendation and shut
off hyperthreading.

j

-----Original Message-----
From: Petri Helenius [mailto:pete@he.iki.fi] 
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 9:37 AM
To: jeev
Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Dual 2.40ghz xeon w/hyperthreading



>Which would give me the best performance? To disable hyperthreading or
>enable machdep.cpu_idle_hlt, and if I were to enable it, it would be from
>loader.conf or?

If you have significant interrupt / syscall load, disable hyperthreading. If
most
of your work is in userland, go for idle_hlt. Someone also mentioned that
current has gotten better in this regard, I havenīt tested that yet.

Pete



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