Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:52 -0500 From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <lists@tntluoma.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3? Message-ID: <9094-SnapperMsgD246FC56BE0A255B@68.243.126.247>
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summary: should I disable hypertheading in the BIOS when running 5.3? Background info: I have a new Dell Dimension 3000 running 5.3. I noticed some huge pauses when copying a large # of files across the network. Googling around found some information about earlier versions of 5.x and Hyperthreading being detrimenatl for performance. Whether or not it was the source of the network copy problem, I am trying to decide if I should disable Hyperthreading. Iif YES, I wasn't clear if people meant "disable in BIOS" or just some configuration setting in a *.conf file. (disabling HT will apparently mean I have to reinstall XP on the other drive. Not necessarily a bad thing, as it is supposedly also the way to solve the problem of my modem causing a BSOD in XP) thanks TjL
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