Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core

2006-05-12 Thread OxY
! - Original Message - From: Derrick T. Woolworth To: OxY Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 9:09 PM Subject: Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core Huge performance advantage and difference between i386 and amd64 kernel. i386 is 32-bit and amd64 is obviously 64-bit, but

Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core

2006-05-11 Thread YSC
if you want dual core + ht you gotta buy intel extream cpu ( dual core + ht = 4cpu) On 5/12/06, Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think intel chips with dual core don't have hyperthreading. The operating system sees the second core like it would with hyperthreading only. On May 11, 200

Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core

2006-05-11 Thread Achim Patzner
i just bought an Intel Pentium D-930 (3ghz dual-core) and wonder why i just only have CPU0 and CPU1, when i compile with SMP... You would need a Pentium Extreme (840, 955 or 965) for this. And quite a bit of cash. Achim ___ freebsd-performance@

Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core

2006-05-11 Thread OxY
930 is perfect, fast enough, no need to spend more money, thanks :) - Original Message - From: "Achim Patzner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OxY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 8:16 PM Subject: Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dua

Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core

2006-05-11 Thread Shane Ambler
On 12/5/2006 1:30, "OxY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi! > > i just bought an Intel Pentium D-930 (3ghz dual-core) > and wonder why i just only have CPU0 and CPU1, when i compile with SMP... > > sysctl says: > machdep.cpu_idle_hlt: 0 > > is it right or i should see CPU 2 and 3 starting during

Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core

2006-05-11 Thread Lucas Holt
I think intel chips with dual core don't have hyperthreading. The operating system sees the second core like it would with hyperthreading only. On May 11, 2006, at 12:00 PM, OxY wrote: hi! i just bought an Intel Pentium D-930 (3ghz dual-core) and wonder why i just only have CPU0 and CPU1

enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core

2006-05-11 Thread OxY
hi! i just bought an Intel Pentium D-930 (3ghz dual-core) and wonder why i just only have CPU0 and CPU1, when i compile with SMP... sysctl says: machdep.cpu_idle_hlt: 0 is it right or i should see CPU 2 and 3 starting during the boot? thanks for your help! ps: i even compiled this option in ke