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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:37:12 +0300
From:      "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To:        "jeev" <jeev@boldinternet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dual 2.40ghz xeon w/hyperthreading
Message-ID:  <016601c30b48$f12ec1b0$932a40c1@PHE>
References:  <000301c30b44$95bc4090$0200a8c0@mainframe>

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>Which would give me the best performance? To disable hyperthreading or
>enable machdep.cpu_idle_hlt, and if I were to enable it, it would be from
>loader.conf or?

If you have significant interrupt / syscall load, disable hyperthreading. If most
of your work is in userland, go for idle_hlt. Someone also mentioned that
current has gotten better in this regard, I havenīt tested that yet.

Pete



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