Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-10 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, March 09, 2012 04:33:30 AM John R Pierce wrote: gaming uses the graphics card for rendering, yes. by 'rendering', I was thinking more of production rendering, like Pixar does when making a movie, using clusters of 100s of multicore nodes to render frames. The same engine that

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-09 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 03/08/12 11:44 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: I know there might be some negative performance issues with certain applications, but would you notice it in day-to-day use? if you're using the server for pure floating point

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-09 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: den 9 mars 2012 08:54 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5 On 03/08/12 11:44 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: I know there might be some

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/09/12 12:02 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: This servers would be used for MySQL DB purpose. I suppose it would be IO bound instead of CPU cycles. Please help me understand. if you have a large number of client-sql connections and concurrent queries, and lots of ram for caching, more hardware

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-09 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: den 9 mars 2012 08:54 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/09/12 12:32 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Not sure i understand about your earlier comment regarding pure floating point compute, help me understand with some examples. mostly, numerical scientific processing, and various sorts of multimedia work, such as batch converting HDTV video

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-09 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: den 9 mars 2012 10:17 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5 mostly, numerical scientific processing, and various sorts

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/09/12 1:28 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: 3D animation rendering as in gaming? That would explain the use of GPU's in bigger calculation clusters I guess. gaming uses the graphics card for rendering, yes. by 'rendering', I was thinking more of production rendering, like Pixar does when making a

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-09 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: den 9 mars 2012 10:34 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5 On 03/09/12 1:28 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: 3D animation rendering

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-09 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Friday 09 March 2012 08.44.53 Sorin Srbu wrote: ... What are some of the cases it would be practical/best to have it off? I know there might be some negative performance issues with certain applications, but would you notice it in day-to-day use? Negative performance due to HT comes in

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-09 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Peter Kjellström Sent: den 9 mars 2012 11:05 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5 I know there might be some negative performance issues

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-09 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/08/2012 11:45 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, Do we need HT enabled on CentOS release 5.5 (Final) and Kernel Version :- 2.6.18-194.el5 Please help me understand the pros and cons of having HT enabled or disabled on the Server Dell R 710. cat /proc/cpuinfo - http://fpaste.org/K2dT/

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-08 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:15:29AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, Do we need HT enabled on CentOS release 5.5 (Final) and Kernel Version :- 2.6.18-194.el5 I don't think it harms anything to have it enabled, and there may be some small performance gains in some cases. I'd leave it on.

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-08 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of fred smith Sent: den 9 mars 2012 07:17 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5 On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:15:29AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi

Re: [CentOS] HT (Hyper Threading) on CentOS 5.5

2012-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/08/12 11:44 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: I know there might be some negative performance issues with certain applications, but would you notice it in day-to-day use? if you're using the server for pure floating point compute, don't run more threads than you have actual cores. high concurrency