[CentOS] Re: Hyperthreading

Fri Jun 2 08:31:10 UTC 2006
Henk van Lingen <henkvl at cs.uu.nl>

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,

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