Re: F9 and move to Hyperthreaded processor

2008-11-16 Thread Bob Kinney
Ahh the beautiful simplicity... Thanks for the responses --- On Sat, 11/15/08, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: F9 and move to Hyperthreaded processor To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008, 5:41 PM

Re: F9 and move to Hyperthreaded processor

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 11/15/2008 06:03 PM, Bob Kinney wrote: Hello-- I am running F9 on an older box that has a Pentium 4 non-hyperthreaded processor--it works great. I want to plop in a hyperthreaded processor--let's assume here that the processor and mainboard are compatible and working fine together. When

Re: F9 and move to Hyperthreaded processor

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jerry Feldman wrote: Be wary of hyperthreading. AFAIK, Intel no longer supports this feature in their processors. First, there are a number of applications that actually suffer from hyperthreading. For instance, my company's product runs significantly slower on a system with hyperthreading

F9 and move to Hyperthreaded processor

2008-11-15 Thread Bob Kinney
Hello-- I am running F9 on an older box that has a Pentium 4 non-hyperthreaded processor--it works great. I want to plop in a hyperthreaded processor--let's assume here that the processor and mainboard are compatible and working fine together. When I fire this system back up, how will the

Re: F9 and move to Hyperthreaded processor

2008-11-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 15:03 -0800, Bob Kinney wrote: When I fire this system back up, how will the kernel react? I have read that SMP is built into the kernel already, so will it simply pick up on the extra processor and begin working in hyperthreaded/dual processor mode or will this be

Re: F9 and move to Hyperthreaded processor

2008-11-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bob Kinney wrote: Hello-- I am running F9 on an older box that has a Pentium 4 non-hyperthreaded processor--it works great. I want to plop in a hyperthreaded processor--let's assume here that the processor and mainboard are compatible and working fine together. When I fire this