option Hyperthreading

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:05:34AM -0500, Sam Napier wrote:
> 	I have a quad P-Pro machine (IBM PC-704) running FreeBSD 4.8 p-7, I 
> wanted to know if there is an advantage to enabling hyperthreading in 
> the kernel config  when you are using more than 2 physical processors? 

It depends on the workload: sometimes yes, sometimes no.  Try it and see.

> Are there any changes that need to be made to make.conf for this setup?

No.

Kris
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