Ah OK, as several other architectures/OSes were thrown around in this thread I did not immediately understand that you were talking about specifically OpenBSD context. Thank you for clarification.
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Ryan McBride <mcbr...@openbsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 04:14:28PM +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > What is the rationale behind this statement: > > > > > > "... > > - CPU: maximum SINGLE CORE "turbo" speed. Disable the other cores, > > they're not helping you at all..."? > > OpenBSD doesn't run multiprocessor inside the kernel, so SMP provides no > benefit. Even if it did, the overhead of SMP would probably be a net > loss for this particular workload.
