----- Original Message ----- From: <raid@ddx.a2000.nu> To: "Martin Eriksson" <nitrax@giron.wox.org> Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:08 PM Subject: Re: Enable HTT with dual xeon fileserver ? > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Martin Eriksson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <raid@ddx.a2000.nu> > > To: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> > > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 11:02 PM > > Subject: Enable HTT with dual xeon fileserver ? > > > > > I'm building a Dual Xeon Fileserver > > > i can enable HTT in the bios (so i have 4 logical processors) > > > > I'm very sceptical that a fileserver would gain any performance from HT. > don't know, just wondering > maybe samba/nfs can use htt/dual cpu ? Yes, theoretically. Your "problem" is still that all your disk arrays and especially network, are slower than *one* of your CPUs. Well that isn't really a problem, you propably have a kick*ss server in any case. > > In fact, I don't really realize why you even need two CPU's? If you are > i also don't think i really need 2 cpu's > but i bought the second one, because it was just a bit more (compared to > the whole price of the machine) Ok, that's reasonable. /Martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
