Hi, On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 21:38 +0100, michael wrote: > Well, I've Xeons in my box which support hyperthreading (HT). I presume > this is the same as "dual core". However, with a 2.4 debian SMP kernel I > found that for my applications it was better to turn HT off. I've yet to > try with 2.6 kernel but it is meant to have better scheduling. But as > implied above performance will depend on your applications!
HT is not the same as dual core. HT simulate a dual core processor with only 1 core and performance gain are relatively low. I suppose that performance gain with a dual core are higher, but I never read anything about it. -- strawks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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