Subject Re: [ib-support] FB Hyper Threading and Performance
Author Rick Fincher
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

----- 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