hyper threading.

[Paul A. Hoadley]

Hello,

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:54:06PM -0800, John Pettitt wrote:
> 
> Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> 
> >I note a slight difference in the 10 minute load average in favour
> >of the uniprocessor run (0.00 vs 0.10 in the hyperthreading run),
> >though I doubt this alone could account for a 15% difference in
> >total score.
>
> Notice the HT run had load on the box (0.31) when it started.  If
> you're going to run benchmarks you need to start with a clean reboot
> before each run and make sure all the background daemons have been
> killed and and the load is zero.

You are absolutely right, and I did note the difference in load
averages.  I'm not making any claims---someone asked for measurements,
and I happened to have these handy.


-- 
Paul.

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