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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