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Date:      Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:03:52 +0100 (CET)
From:      Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "" <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c initcpu.c locore.s
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.50.0301250956040.21553-100000@scribble.fsn.hu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301241018340.75548-100000@root.org>
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Hello,

> I'm not sure what you mean by "weaker".
Slower.
At least that's what I'd think after reading this:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=53860+0+archive/2002/freebsd-smp/20020526.freebsd-smp

> If you have code that is multi-process and it runs faster on an SMP
> system than a single CPU system, then it is likely to run faster with
> HTT than without.
I asked my question because I read some posts from the opensource world
which said: "when I turned off SMT I got better results".

So the question was this: in the current state of the 4.x tree, will
someone really benefit from enabling hyperthreading, or it is better to
switch it off? Of course this depends on the application, but maybe there
are some advices and experiences to be shared with the average Joe user,
like me ;)

But it is very likely that this question is much more difficult to
answer than a "yes" or "no".

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