On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Adir Abraham wrote:But is that a Linux specific problem? Will another OS under the same circumstances not suffer from performance penalties?
Yes. Hyperthreading works fine in Linux (2.4.x) and it works as if you had
two processors. Actually, Linux doesn't mind about it, because it really
looks for Linux as if you had two processors. It starts from the BIOS
Not exactly, from the performance point of view. It depends on what you
want to do with your machine. For some applications, hyper-threading might
hurt the performance.
Shachar
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