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Date:      Thu, 7 May 2009 06:55:17 +0400
From:      pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com>
To:        Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>
Cc:        "Current@freebsd.org" <Current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Hypertherading
Message-ID:  <a31046fc0905061955u4a7b5755ifbcd7bd5641cd954@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <270637.78561.qm@web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
References:  <270637.78561.qm@web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

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2009/5/7 Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>:
>
> I just got a shiny new nehalem box and it comes up with 16 processors with dual quads installed. Is there any benefit or should hyperthreading be disabled?
>

Hi. There is a measurable win if hyperthreading is enabled [1].
You can switch it off via machdep.hyperthreading_enabled loader tunable.

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-January/047460.html


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