Re: kernel 2.6 hyperthreading

From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Mon Feb 28 2005 - 17:18:31 EST


shabanip wrote:
enabling hyperthreading on kernel 2.6 how much affects the performance?

Typically 10-30% depending on what you are doing. For some rare loads it could actually hurt a few percent, although I haven't personally ever seen that.

It seems to make the desktop feel smoother, but I have no way to quantify that.

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