[CentOS] Re: Hyperthreading

Fri Jun 2 11:40:42 UTC 2006
Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net>

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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