Subject | Re: [ib-support] FB Hyper Threading and Performance |
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Author | Rick Fincher |
Post date | 2003-02-28T17:44:01Z |
Hi Phil,
Why is that? I've been running SS on Red Hat 8.0 with hyper threading and
I've had no problems. HT is enabled and I see two cpu's in /proc/cpuinfo
etc.
Rick
Why is that? I've been running SS on Red Hat 8.0 with hyper threading and
I've had no problems. HT is enabled and I see two cpu's in /proc/cpuinfo
etc.
Rick
----- Original Message ----- > > 1. Do you have experience with FB running
on P4 with hyper threading? Are
> > there problems regarding that the processor reports itself as MPU?
>
> If you are using the SS version of FB (or < IB7) on Windows 2000 and
below,
> you will need to disable hyperthreading in the Bios. The Classic version
is
> fine on Windows, and will use 'both' CPU's well. If you are running the
SS
> version on Linux with a recent kernel, you don't have to disable
> hyperthreading, but you do need to set the affinity of the FB process to a
> 'single' CPU. The Classic version is fine on Linux and will use 'both'
CPU's.
snip
>
> Phil
>
> --
> Linux 2.4.4-4GB
> 8:10am up 45 days, 13:59, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.09, 0.03