Debian hyperthreading support

Pretty simple question really, does Debian i.e. the current Linux Kernel handle hyperthreading well? I have a server running on an Intel Atom D510, should I have HT enabled or disabled to get the best performance? Thanks. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Debian hyperthreading support

Thanks for replying. The system is running mainly a file server so it's not very CPU-intensive, I wanted to be sure I wasn't wasting performance by having it enabled, for example. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Network crashes under heavy load

I thought that might be the case. I think I've finally learned my lesson about Realtek NICs anyway, I ordered a PCI Intel NIC earlier today so I'll see how that goes. Thanks very much for your help everyone. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Network crashes under heavy load

I've just found and installed that Realtek PCI card I was talking about - it's an r8169 chipset card and so far I've not been able to crash it but as I feared, throughput is much lower, varying between about 580 and 650 Mbps although I'm not sure whether that's due to the PCI bus or the card

Re: Network crashes under heavy load

I posted this earlier but it's not appeared on the list for some reason: Sorry about the delay I didn't have a chance to try anything yesterday. Anyway I've just tried a direct connection, updating BIOS, compiling and installing the latest drivers and it's still the same, if not worse - it seems

Re: Re: Network crashes under heavy load

Thanks for replying. To answer your questions - I couldn't find anything unusual in the logs, the first message around the time of the crash was the shutdown message when I pressed the power button. I have a PCI realtek card I could try with, I think it's a different chipset so I'll try with that,

Network crashes under heavy load

For some reason my server stops responding to network traffic (shares go offline, no response to SSH or ping, etc) after heavy load - transferring large amounts of data via Samba or running several iperf benchmarks causes it, however the system still responds to the power button so shuts down when