On 1/22/06, Andrew McNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:43:36PM -0500, Anthony Vito wrote: > > > > HyperThreading is a horrible kludge. It required every OS to rewrite > > their process schedulers to not die context switching to an imaginary > > processor. The Linux kernel claims to have a hyper threading aware > > scheduler, but I've never been happy with it running on a loaded > > server. With mythTV, you'll really won't notice any difference either > > way, so just the standard kernel. > > > > Like Brian said, dual cores are a different matter. You must run the > > SMP kernel or your not using half the silicon. > > > > However much of a kludge HyperThreading is, and I don't doubt that it's > a horrible kludge, performance on my 2.4 GHz P4 has improved > dramatically since I enabled it. When I'm running two CPU-intensive > programs at the same time--an extremely common situation--latency is > much less of an issue. I'm really happy with the results, even if the > design is awful. But when dual-core processors become affordable, I'd > love to get one.
I agree completely. I played around with HT and found that it made a *very* noticeable improvement to my playback. John _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
