FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt in FreeBSD-6.0

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Fri Jul 22 14:22:11 GMT 2005


Frank Behrens wrote:
> Yesterday I made an update (cvsup) from my FreeBSD 5.4 to RELENG_6 - 
> no big problems so far. 
> 
> 2. In 6.0/7.0 hyperthreading was left on, because it was a 
> development branch only. In that case somebody should set the default 
> switch to off before the 6.0-RELEASE (better before the next BETA 
> version) and write a note in UPDATING.

Yes.  This needs to be taken care of at some point -- likely at the same
time as some of the debugging options with large performance costs are
turned off.

Colin Percival


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