From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 3 17:13:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752C116A401 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 17:13:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA0743D70 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 17:12:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 074EA291F83; Wed, 3 May 2006 14:12:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 90814-07; Wed, 3 May 2006 14:12:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9A5291F81; Wed, 3 May 2006 14:12:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4B6968A03B; Wed, 3 May 2006 14:12:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A6960910; Wed, 3 May 2006 14:12:45 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 14:12:45 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Wilko Bulte In-Reply-To: <20060503162839.GB33963@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <20060503141133.I1147@ganymede.hub.org> References: <12AAD6CC50A25841834F43955F39B66E042ADC4F@qgaes001.conway.prod.con-way.com> <20060503130544.K1147@ganymede.hub.org> <20060503162839.GB33963@freebie.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "Zimmerman, Eric" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hyperthreading in 6.x ... still frowned upon? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 17:13:02 -0000 On Wed, 3 May 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:06:24PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote.. >> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Zimmerman, Eric wrote: >> >>>> >>>> In 4.x, it was a 'shut it off' sort of deal .. my new amd64 don't >>> appear >>>> to have it enabled, but my older i386 server that I just upgraded to >>> 6.x >>>> does: >>>> >>>> >>>> Is it still something that I should disable, and, if so, how in 6.x? >>>> >>> >>> Can you disable it in the BIOS or do you dual boot this machine? >> >> Unfortunately, this is a remote server, and not HP, so getting at the BIOS >> is tricky ... :( Is there a sysctl variable that can be set for this? > > As a matter of curiosity: do you run RILOE to get console access on your > HPs? If RILOE == iLO via SSH ... most definitely ... can't rave enough about it, just wish I could afford to replace all the *old* servers with these, would reduce my 'remote admin stress levels' by half easily ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664