Re: Hyperthreading

James Bourne (jbourne@MtRoyal.AB.CA)
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:25:30 -0600 (MDT)


On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> > That has balanced the timer irqs. I've also enabled hyper threading
> > (append="acpismp=force").
> > ...
> > And, you've gotta like this line:
> > Total of 4 processors activated (14299.95 BogoMIPS).
>
> Before you get too excited about that, how much performance boost do
> you actually get by turning on Hyperthreading? ;-)

Well, that's something I'm working on finding out.

But, you have to like the looks of it!

James

>
> M.
>

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James Bourne, Supervisor Data Centre Operations
Mount Royal College, Calgary, AB, CA
www.mtroyal.ab.ca

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