Hyperthreading in 6.x ... still frowned upon?

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:12:45PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote..
> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:06:24PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote..
> >>On Wed, 3 May 2006, Zimmerman, Eric wrote:
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>>In 4.x, it was a 'shut it off' sort of deal .. my new amd64 don't
> >>>appear
> >>>>to have it enabled, but my older i386 server that I just upgraded to
> >>>6.x
> >>>>does:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Is it still something that I should disable, and, if so, how in 6.x?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>Can you disable it in the BIOS or do you dual boot this machine?
> >>
> >>Unfortunately, this is a remote server, and not HP, so getting at the BIOS
> >>is tricky ... :(  Is there a sysctl variable that can be set for this?
> >
> >As a matter of curiosity:  do you run RILOE to get console access on your
> >HPs?
> 
> If RILOE == iLO via SSH ... most definitely ... can't rave enough about 
> it, just wish I could afford to replace all the *old* servers with these, 
> would reduce my 'remote admin stress levels' by half easily ...

Yup.. they are nice ;-)

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org