Re: Help understanding slow down

Nick Piggin
2004-05-24T07:44:36Z

Phy Prabab wrote:
> For more information, I ran the same test on 2.4.21

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Is hyperthreading enabled on 2.6 and 2.4? Can you send
a cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor for a 2.4 and a 2.6
kernel please?

If you have hyperthreading enabled, try 2.6.7-rc1 with
SMT (hyperthreading) scheduler support enabled in the
kernel config. It is in processor type and features menu.