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Jon Fanti wrote:
| Hi guys, | | We've started buying replacement servers for our aging equipment | here (it took a while to squeeze the money out of the bean | counters!), most of the new equipment is coming with HT (Hyper | Threading)-enabled Xeon or P4 CPUs. Is it worth using HT with FC2? | Mostly our servers are running apache and MySQL plus some PHP | scripts. I can't find any where that says I should/shouldn't enable | HT. What's the general recommendation? I'm tempted to just turn it | off unless I am likely to notice a nice big performance gain from | leaving it on?
Hi,
I have a HT enabled laptop and I have noticed a slight improvement when multitasking. Only downside I have had is with kernel modules like ndiswrapper that don't support 2 CPUs. For server use it should be just what the doctor ordered.
When looking to buy a HT enabled computer I came across this great example of performance:
http://www.2cpu.com/articles/41_4.html
Regards Phil Hannent
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