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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:54:08 -0500
From:      Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.7-stable & smp
Message-ID:  <20030213225407.GA95825@laptop.lambertfam.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E4BF169.7010402@pantherdragon.org>
References:  <9256D57F598E6C41B288AA7DB94F29C9604A2A@pgnmail1.pgnaplikace.cz> <3E4BF169.7010402@pantherdragon.org>

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On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:26:33AM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> Roub?cek Zdenek (PragoNet) wrote:
> > 
> > Any chance to disable it (hyperthreading)? I just want 2 physical CPUs 
> > not 4 virtual working.
> 
> JOOC, why don't you want it enabled?  My understanding of the concept is 
> HT allows the CPU to more fully utilize the available host bus bandwidth 
> since a single, deep pipline won't normally make full use of a 200MHz 
> host bus.  Assuming the SMP code in FreeBSD is effective, I'd think you 
> seriously cut into the CPU's performance by disabling HT.

Not if you only have two CPU intensive processes.

-- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert@lambertfam.org      

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