Re: [pfSense] Prevailing wisdom on Hyperthreading?

2013-04-15 Thread Ray
Hello, as I recently had great issues with HyperThreading I can tell you the results of my investigations: At least up to Micro Architecture "Nehalem" it should be considered to deactivate HyperThreading, if you do not have a Operating Systems which directly and officially supports it. Hearsay ha

Re: [pfSense] Prevailing wisdom on Hyperthreading?

2013-04-12 Thread Dave Warren
On 2013-04-12 13:18, Nathan C. Smith wrote: A couple years ago when the topic of CPU hyper threading came up I remember folks being advised to disable it. Is that still the prevailing wisdom and current best practice? On P4 series CPUs, you should absolutely disable it. On modern CPUs, the

Re: [pfSense] Prevailing wisdom on Hyperthreading?

2013-04-12 Thread Vick Khera
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Nathan C. Smith wrote: > A couple years ago when the topic of CPU hyper threading came up I > remember folks being advised to disable it. Is that still the prevailing > wisdom and current best practice? > I never explicitly disable it anymore, but I am not sure w

[pfSense] Prevailing wisdom on Hyperthreading?

2013-04-12 Thread Nathan C. Smith
A couple years ago when the topic of CPU hyper threading came up I remember folks being advised to disable it. Is that still the prevailing wisdom and current best practice? Thank you. -Nate ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.