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On 11/15/06, Jeff Mohler <speedtoys.racing@gmail.com> wrote:
> My dmesg matches yours Juha..
>
> Would enabling Hyperthreading increase any of my processing power?

Well, if you have the D830, no, because it doesn't have HTT support. :)

As a general question, the answer is yes and no. Depends on your
application basically, as well as the operating system itself. It's
one of those questions that'll lead to long and detailed flame wars,
unfortunately.

-- 
Juha
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha