Poor Samba throughput on 6.0

[Mike Tancsa]

At 08:54 AM 11/11/2005, Joao Barros wrote:
>Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
>Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #5: Thu Nov 10 13:57:54 WET 2005
>     root at bio:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP
>Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz (3065.82-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,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>   Features2=0x4400<CNTX-ID,<b14>>
>   Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs

Do you actually see a performance improvement with HTT ?  I have yet 
to find an app that we use which actually sees a benefit from it.

         ---Mike