From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin Eriksson" Subject: Re: Enable HTT with dual xeon fileserver ? Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 01:43:12 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <001a01c25f6d$270813f0$900d0d93@M02WS17219> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: raid@ddx.a2000.nu Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Martin Eriksson" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:08 PM Subject: Re: Enable HTT with dual xeon fileserver ? > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Martin Eriksson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: > > To: > > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 11:02 PM > > Subject: Enable HTT with dual xeon fileserver ? > > > > > I'm building a Dual Xeon Fileserver > > > i can enable HTT in the bios (so i have 4 logical processors) > > > > I'm very sceptical that a fileserver would gain any performance from HT. > don't know, just wondering > maybe samba/nfs can use htt/dual cpu ? Yes, theoretically. Your "problem" is still that all your disk arrays and especially network, are slower than *one* of your CPUs. Well that isn't really a problem, you propably have a kick*ss server in any case. > > In fact, I don't really realize why you even need two CPU's? If you are > i also don't think i really need 2 cpu's > but i bought the second one, because it was just a bit more (compared to > the whole price of the machine) Ok, that's reasonable. /Martin