Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

[Timothy Luoma]

On Jan 11, 2005, at 8:43 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On 2005-01-11 19:52, "Timothy J. Luoma" <lists at tntluoma.com> wrote:
>>
>> summary: should I disable hypertheading in the  BIOS when running 5.3?
>> [...]
>> If YES, I wasn't clear if people meant "disable in BIOS" or just some
>> configuration setting in a *.conf file.
>
> FWIW, that should be enough, as far as FreeBSD is concerned.

sorry to be dense, but which should be enough, BIOS or conf file?

is the default to use or not use hyperthreading in the kernel/conf?