Re: Hyperthreading

Martin J. Bligh (Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com)
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:31:05 -0700


>> Before you get too excited about that, how much performance boost do
>> you actually get by turning on Hyperthreading? ;-)
>
> In my testing with SCI, it speeds up some operations and with 3Ware
> it increases throuput about 10 MB/S. Not a lot but there is some
> improvement (if you can get around the lockups during boot).

What's that 10MB/s as a percentage of the overall performance?

M.

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