I thought it was recommended you disable HT if you were maining running hl
servers?

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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds_linux-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Donnon
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:10 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] help how do i get the servers in linux to use
> both cpus
>
> >> > im runnig a p4 3.2 ht in top i see 2 cpu's only one is
> >> > doing the work ! so how can i force it to use cpu 1 and 0
> >>
> >> HT doens NOT equal two CPU's.  Think of it more as CPU
> >> resources A and B.  HLDS likes lots of A and bugger all of
> >> B, so forcing it to use B is probably a poor idea.
> >
> > Its not up to hlds... Its how the OS, or rather the SMP code in the
> > kernel, is managing to use the two virtual cpu's. Apperently there is
> some
> > tools in some distributions where you can set a process to a certain
> > virtual cpu. And sometimes its not that specify a cpu for a process.
> Dunno
> > which dists that have those tools.
>
> and on a proper SMP machine doing this might have some small benefit.
> HT is not SMP, he does NOT have two CPU's and he cannot run twice as many
> HLDS processes.
> HT is a good way of offloading other system processes, and confusing newbs
> into thinking their box is only at half the utilization it actually is.
>
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