redhat 7.3 an PE 2650 indicate 4 Processors instead 2

[jason andrade]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Shahram wrote:

> is this advantageous to run with Hyper-Threading on Redhat 7.3?

hyperthreading should give you an extra 25-40% of available cpu depending
on the application (multithreaded ? multiple applications?).

> is there any disadvantage known?

there hasn't been any feedback which talks about disadvantages at this
point but it is still a relatively new piece of technology in terms of
widespread deployment.  i am sure they will crop up.

there have been a couple of reports of people solving some stability
issues by disabling hyperthreading but they have not been conclusive.


regards,

-jason