Experiences with Intel 820 Dual-Core....

[Indigo 23]

Well more specifically, I was just wondering if it is a wise idea to turn on 
HyperThreading (i.e. will I see any benefit performance wise)? 

PS. I know about the security issue regarding HT already.

On 8/1/05, Dylan Goss <acct at dylangoss.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a dual core, dual processor IBM xSeries 345 that is running at
> 2.8GHz. I'm not sure if that is the chip, here's part of the dmesg:
> 
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2793.90-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9
> 
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE
> ,MCA,C
> MOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
> real memory = 3221069824 (3071 MB)
> avail memory = 3150704640 (3004 MB)
> ACPI APIC Table: <IBM SERONYXP>
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
> cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
> cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1
> cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6
> cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7
> 
> It is running 5.4 release w/SMP enabled and doing well. I can't
> really expand much unless I know what you're looking for, let me know
> if I can help.
> 
> Best,
> d.
> 
> On Aug 1, 2005, at 6:39 PM, Indigo 23 wrote:
> 
> > Anyone have any experiences with FreeBSD running on an Intel
> > Pentium D 820
> > [Dual Core 2.8GHz]?
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