On Wednesday 01 September 2004 7:30 pm, James Wilkinson wrote: > Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Does this mean that with my FC1 install, with a P4 and using the > > defaulted SMP kernel is not the best option? > > > > Would I be better running the non-SMP kernel that was also installed > > as an option? > > It *seriously* depends on what you're running. The only valid measure > of the speed of your computer is how fast it runs your programs. True! Hyper-Threading can help, hurt, or neither one. Check out this article: http://www.2cpu.com/articles/41_1.html