On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 04:18:05PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > I've been told that smp+hyperthreading is flaky, so it's not just me. > > > Flaky should not be the default. > > It's flaky in the sense that it's not a performance win in all workloads. > > But it shouldn't be more flaky than SMP in general, and that should be > > pretty solid. > The context in which I was told smp+hyperthreading is flaky > was as an explanation for why my problem wasn't a surprise. Well, hyperthreading *without* smp is "no hyperthreading". And the only particular flakiness I'm aware of is that it isn't a performance win for many workloads. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit.
