On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Richard Troy wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > I'm just wondering: We just recently - last weekend - decided to "move > into the modern era" on one of our server boxes running RedHat Linux. Our > hardware selection was P4 2.6ghz, 800mhz fsb, with a gig of main memory on > an Intel brand mother board with integrated 1000 Base-T nic. Along the > way, I noticed that the bios has an option to turn on or off > "Hyperthreading" - which I presume is just a flavor of pipelining - and > the supporting documentation warns to not use hyperthreading if your OS > does not support it... > > OK, you saw it coming a mile away: What versions of Linux, if any, support > hyperthreading? If not, any idea when? > I think 2.4.18 of the linux kernel and beyond do so, and specifically RH 9 supports hyper threading right out of the box. I have been using it on some boxes supporting hyperthreading without any issues since the RH 9 beta came out (phoebe). Cheers...james > Thanks, > Richard > > P.S. In a similar vein: I know we _were_ limited to around 120gb disks > with, say RedHat 7.2. Does this limitation still apply? (I vaguely recall > it had to do with lack of support for ATA-133, IIRC.) If not, got any > details? Thanks again, RT > > _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
