yeah, I'm hoping someone's already tried that with a similarly-specced box and can save me the bother ;)
--j. Kevin A. McGrail writes: > Technically or theoretically, telling it you have 16 and sending it more > information than CPUs should allow the processor to handle the threading in > ways that will give a speed increase. > > Unfortunately, the engineer in me is laughing (cackling, actually) and > wondering if a speed test of the command at 16 and the command at 8 using > even something simple like time would be in order. > > Regards, > KAM > > > > yep, /proc/cpuinfo says 16. Should I reduce that back down to 8? > > (I haven't had much experience with HT yet) > > > > --j. > > > > Kevin A. McGrail writes: > >> Answering only for talon1, yes. It is a quad processor box with > >> dual-core > >> 3GHz Xeon CPUs. Thought it may come up as 16 cores because of > >> HyperThreading. > >> > >> regards, > >> KAM > >> > >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:-j8 > >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:-j8 > >> > > >> > Are those both 8 core machines? Non-net checks run the fastest with a > >> > single job per core. > >
