On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Killing wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: > > > machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1 > > > > Halting them will still cause the CPUs to be detected. They just won't do > > any useful work. > > Yep but the issue is that all the core admin tools are unaware of this and > hence include the virtual cores in idle calcs etc making load monitoring > impossible without nasty cludges :( > > So what's the way forward? > 1. Dont just use halt have a compile or other directive to disable them? > 2. Update all tools to be halt aware? > > Personally I'd go with 2 all be it more work / ramifications on other 3rd party > tools as it gives the benefit of also working when physical CPU's are halted.
Well, hyperthreading can be disabled via a kernel directive, right? > Which ever it needs someone to pick it up ASAP dont you think? Really? What's the hurry? FreeBSD 5.x isn't even bootable/installable on a number of SMP machines yet (ex. Dell Poweredge 6350). > Steve Tom _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"