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We are replacing a box that is fairly busy with many different processes 
(sendmail / pop3).  The new MB and CPU is hyperthreading capable. Is it 
worth it to enable this ?  Does anyone have any real world experiences with 
it in RELENG_4 that say one way or the other to use or not use it ?

dmesg shows,

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2992.52-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,S
SE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
   Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs

	---Mike
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