Xeon/P4 hyperthreading

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:

> get the result you are thinking of, because the box has 4 CPUs,
> pretending to be 8, and you need to "flood" them to get a good feel for
> things.
>
> I haven't been able to test the box for how much difference (positive or
> negative) HyperThreading makes.  The box is generally stinkin' fast...
>
> 12 UW SCSI drives with a cacheing RAID controller helps too :-).

I hope you've got that box doing some inportant resource intensive job.
Anything else would be disrespectful ;)

Rob

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