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Date:      Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:00:57 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Lucas Holt <laffer1@foolishgames.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3 and Dual CPU
Message-ID:  <20041020170057.GE17309@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041020125410.Y56575@adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net>
References:  <41768757.10004@calarts.edu> <20041020125410.Y56575@adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net>

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On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:55:03PM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote:
> Yes, it will work fine.  I have a dual xeon 2.0ghz dell workstation.  It=
=20
> will work with and without Hyperthreading enabled.  With HTT, you will se=
e=20
> four cpus.. without 2.

Of course, you'll probably want to run without HTT enabled unless you
have a special (e.g. FP-intensive) workload that actually benefits
from it, otherwise it's a performance killer.

Kris

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