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Subject: Re: Disabling HyperThreading?
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Hello,


membrana wrote:
> 
> Hubert Tournier wrote:
>> Is there a way to disable "Hyper-Threading Technology" in modern FreeBSD
>> systems?
> check your bios settings for hyper-threading technology or similar to 
> disable it
> 

I forgot to specify that the system is a remote dedicated server, for which
i have no physical access.

I could rent a virtual KVM in order to try to access its BIOS settings, but
i'm not sure this would work.

Any other software solution?



> you may check cpuset(1) to assign one virtual machine per cpu, although 
> i didn't test this.
> 

Thank you. I didn't knew that one!

Best regards,

Hubert
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