Hyperthreading (Was: [CentOS] Received signal 11 during kickstart)

Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob at suespammers.org
Thu Jun 1 15:22:11 UTC 2006


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On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:02:33AM -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote:
> On a related note, what's the consensus on enabling hyperthreading on  
> a CentOS system?  Good, bad, indifferent?  The systems will be used  
> as developer workstations.

If it is a 100% workstation only (no mysql, postgres etc), then it is
ok to use it. Otherwise, you are asking for trouble.

To be on the safe side, I simply disable it, no matter what.

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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