Hyper Threading on P4

Steve Snyder swsnyder at insightbb.com
Thu Sep 2 03:29:45 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 01 September 2004 7:30 pm, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Does this mean that with my FC1 install, with a P4 and using the
> > defaulted SMP kernel is not the best option?
> >
> > Would I be better running the non-SMP kernel that was also installed
> > as an option?
>
> It *seriously* depends on what you're running. The only valid measure
> of the speed of your computer is how fast it runs your programs.

True!  Hyper-Threading can help, hurt, or neither one.  Check out this article:

  http://www.2cpu.com/articles/41_1.html






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