On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Petri Helenius wrote: > > I seem to want to quite the opposite what other people would like to happen, > we have a supermicro P4DPR board with two Xeon´s. Since lately the kernel seems to > want to launch the virtual cores regardless of BIOS setting of HyperThreading being > [Disabled]. > > Any ideas how to disable the cores since our workload is does not benefit from > having more than two cores in a machine. > > Pete >
Currently, AFAIK, there is no way to do this. Depending on what you are doing you can increase performance slightly by setting machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=1 -Trish -- Trish Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ecartis Core Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] EFNet IRC Operator @ efnet.demon.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] EFNet IRC Operator/SysAdmin @ irc.dkom.at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 781D 2B47 AA4B FC88 B919 0CD6 26B2 1D62 6FC1 FF16 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
