Recommended SMP Config

[Larry Rosenman]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 17 March 2006 12:00, Tom Daly wrote:
>>> Because CPU 1 is a hyperthread.  So is CPU 3 for that matter.
>> 
>> That makes sense, but CPU 3 shows up in top without setting
>> machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1. ???
> 
> Yes, that's a bug.

I saw the same thing on my AMD64 system as well, if that matters.

I've since set machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1, but was curious.

Thanks for the confirmation that it's a bug.

If you or anyone needs a test bed, I have a dual-xeon em64t box that I can
give access to.

LER


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