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On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: |
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> from what you pasted, you have a 32bit cpu. But you have a flag I do |
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> as well, and that is 'ht'. Hyper-Threading is a whole different beast |
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> I know very little about, it's more of an Intel thing for there first |
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> generation dual-core cpu's. |
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HT is an abomination that should not be suffered to live. It's Intel's |
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attempt to implement application level threading in silicon and it |
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simply does not work in practice. |
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I've yet to benchmark any reasonably complex app that runs better with |
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hyper-threading enabled. In fact when I still worked support at a |
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certain database vendor we simply refused to support any of our apps |
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running on machines where HT was enabled. |
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Note that it wasn't "you should not do this", it was "go away and phone |
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back when you have rebooted with sane kernel options" :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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