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Date:      Wed, 3 May 2006 13:44:02 -0500
From:      "Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        "'Spartak Radchenko'" <spartak@aif.ru>, "'Marc G. Fournier'" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Hyperthreading in 6.x ... still frowned upon?
Message-ID:  <009401c66ee1$8c706170$0202fea9@aus.pervasive.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060503184223.GB2198@oberon.aif.ru>

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Spartak Radchenko wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:42:18AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier 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:
> 
> I am not sure I understood your problem correctly... Do you want
> to enable hyperthreading on amd64? But they have no such thing.
> Intel only.

you do know that EM64T Xeons *DO* have hyperthreading, and (can) 
run an amd64 kernel?

$ sysctl hw
hw.machine: amd64
hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
hw.ncpu: 4

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