From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 17:56:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D49E16A403 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:56:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kimimeister@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE4913C469 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:55:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kimimeister@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r28so363545nza for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:55:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hH6JbjNqHat7MqJtRoY8F5tbYR2dcIZsxEjBovIEiPvvyjTaDeOWTLkh5rBKmgA7S1PByXPrvmBLXcFxQa5Dr+nSJK98DJvJmvJJWoAgUC3DkeZB6kaFqaHZLxyz2hjEl04XIcw2DByxsCZcWS6z3eykf22QR8iv2Koz935WpFs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RlOpaPoMIZdDby8PPFr9IMYdN8Pq4JEhuKf+HXqNX48IuCOOQpfhs+HTxIvD5YvM/F32553uPROC+ylR7INuf5BRIcL0iha9YgfwENtcCWqQ9sLnNtrRBuCpDeSjviK9dnb3GOOCMUTP4ppd90cdIILac0IQOxZhXOPVzCU8Xqc= Received: by 10.114.26.1 with SMTP id 1mr828728waz.1175795759042; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:55:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.160.20 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 10:55:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42b497160704051055h41c83f68l3985f7ab23166731@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:55:58 +0100 From: "Kimi Ostro" To: "Mark Messier" In-Reply-To: <30662671-669D-401E-A63D-048A224F80DD@messier.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070403194555.4a9d1f2f.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <20070404005721.GA19966@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070403212527.b94753ea.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <4613848B.5080306@tiscali.it> <46145B8F.3010109@u.washington.edu> <30662671-669D-401E-A63D-048A224F80DD@messier.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble with HT X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:56:00 -0000 On 6.X including RELENG_6 you need to use the SMP kernel config in src/sys/i386/conf and on CURRENT just use GENERIC kernel config. then add machdep.hyperthreading_allowed =1 to /boot/loader.conf reboot the other factor in HyperThreading which some forgot is whether you BIOS has support, and whether it is enabled. works for me on a 2.8GHz Northwood on Intel 865G. HTH, -- Kimi