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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of John Newbigin
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 4:16 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: CentOS 4 and Intel P4 without Hyper-Threading vs.
IntelP4 with Hyper-Threading
I assume you mean by swapping the harddisk to a new box? That should be
fine. If you are not already using an SMP kernel then you might want to
install it:
yum install kernel-smp
It is optional but might give you better performance because you can use
the HT.
John.
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Thanks John!
Yes. That is safe to assume. Yet...
Are you saying that the standard stock CentOS 4 kernel does not recognize
nor use or take advantage of HT on a stand alone Intel processor and
motherboard? This is a 865PERL w/LAN I use for development and testing...
... and that if I upgrade to a SMP kernel on this machine that I will have
no problem on a single processor machine/motherboard and HT will then be
enabled?
I "seem to" recall posts on this list recently where people were "disabling"
HT on their multi-processor Intel boxen because of problems.
Is this the case as well or were they enabling it. I'll see if I can find
out yet if anyone can shed info it would be much appreciated.
Basically I am looking at very simple production reliability and testing
issues.
TIA
- rh
