Hyperthreading

[Terry Lambert]

Glenn Johnson wrote:
> Thanks.  I had read the smp manual page.  I know _how_ to enable HTT; I
> was wondering whether I _should_ enable it.  It seems the answer is that
> it is not beneficial in its current state because the scheduler does not
> yet differentiate between physical and logical processors.

Windows does a lot better on the SPECmarks benchmark if you
*disable* it.  Your mileage may vary, but to me it has always
seemed like "Computer Marketecture"...

-- Terry