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Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:41:20 +0100
From:      Richard Tector <richardtector@thekeelecentre.com>
To:        Artem Kuchin <matrix@itlegion.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Top not showing 4 cpus on  2 xeons with HT
Message-ID:  <462F3E60.7010109@thekeelecentre.com>
In-Reply-To: <00e301c7872d$03e1db80$0c00a8c0@Artem>
References:  <00e301c7872d$03e1db80$0c00a8c0@Artem>

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Artem Kuchin wrote:
> I am just wondering if it is normal.
> I have two xeon  processors with HT on each of them.
> When loading kernel says that 4 cpu's are found,
> but when i do top i can see only 0 or 2 in the C
> column. never 1 or 3. Is it normal?
>
> FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE (cvsed 1 day ago)
If I remember correctly, HT is disabled by default for security reasons 
but there should be a sysctl to enable it. I believe there is also a 
paper by Colin Percival on the issue.

Note that in a lot of common loads, the use of HT with the standard 
scheduler does not yield any real benefits.

Regards,

Richard



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