Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-05 Thread Mark Messier
You also need to add: kern.smp.active = 1 kern.smp.cpus = 1 What? I've never added lines like those... They always seem to have the correct values for me: Here it is on 4.8: # sysctl -a | grep smp machdep.smp_active: 1 machdep.smp_cpus: 2 and 5.3: # sysctl -a | grep smp

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-05 Thread Kimi Ostro
On 6.X including RELENG_6 you need to use the SMP kernel config in src/sys/i386/conf and on CURRENT just use GENERIC kernel config. then add machdep.hyperthreading_allowed =1 to /boot/loader.conf reboot the other factor in HyperThreading which some forgot is whether you BIOS has support, and

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-04 Thread Andrea Milani
Jonathan Horne wrote: well, wikipedia says this (something that i just now learned about standard pentium4 line of processors) [wikipedia] HyperThreading was present in all Northwood CPUs, but was disabled in the core in all but the 3.06 GHz model. [/wikipedia] That's not true. I have a

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:57:15PM +0200, Andrea Milani wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: well, wikipedia says this (something that i just now learned about standard pentium4 line of processors) [wikipedia] HyperThreading was present in all Northwood CPUs, but was disabled in the core in all

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
Andrea Milani wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: well, wikipedia says this (something that i just now learned about standard pentium4 line of processors) [wikipedia] HyperThreading was present in all Northwood CPUs, but was disabled in the core in all but the 3.06 GHz model. [/wikipedia]

trouble with HT

2007-04-03 Thread Jonathan Horne
building a new system, processor is: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2793.20-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR, PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT, TM,PBE

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 07:45:55PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: building a new system, processor is: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2793.20-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-03 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 20:57:21 -0400 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 07:45:55PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: building a new system, processor is: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2793.20-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf29 Stepping