Hyperthreading Support with FC3

Jan Morales jan at geezjan.org
Tue Feb 15 19:22:06 UTC 2005


Can you elaborate on HT?

I am running FC3 on a P4 with HT. The installation chose the SMP kernel 
and it runs very well. Would it run better if I disabled HT and ran the 
regular kernel?


Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> I am running FC3 x86_64 on a dual Opteron system, but this has
> absolutely nothing to do with hyperthreading. AMD64 is the x86
> architecture taken one logical step forward, hyperthreading is Intel's
> buzzword for getting parallelizations slowdown without it's benefit.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 




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