Don't take my word for it, run a benchmark and see for yourself.
I have. Somethings go faster on HT, somethings dont, and occassional things run like shite because HT confuses them into thinking they have two real CPUs when they dont. With the introduction of dual-core (and in the case of intels extreme dual core HT) there's been quite a lot of discussion around the hardware review sites about how to properly benchmark such beasties. It makes for interesting reading. Have you tried disabling HT for a day/hour yet? an alternative experiment would be to drop the FPS from 500 to 333 for a day also to see if that will allow more servers to be run. Both of these experiments are also quite a bit cheaper than option 1; which is more memory option 2; which is the biggest clockspeed xeons around, or option 3; which is ditch the box and go opteron and see if that helps. Matt _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
