[CentOS] Re: Hyperthreading
Sam Drinkard
sam at wa4phy.net
Fri Jun 2 11:40:42 UTC 2006
Henk van Lingen wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:22:11PM -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa 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.
>
> Any comments on this?
>
> I have a x86-64 system with one Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz running CentOS 4
> with 2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp (hyperthreading) as a production PostgreSQL 8.x
> database. No probs so far.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
I run a dual xeon machine with HT enabled, and see no issues. Good machine.
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