Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-05 Thread Kimi Ostro
On 6.X including RELENG_6 you need to use the SMP kernel config in src/sys/i386/conf and on CURRENT just use GENERIC kernel config. then add machdep.hyperthreading_allowed =1 to /boot/loader.conf reboot the other factor in HyperThreading which some forgot is whether you BIOS has support, and wh

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-05 Thread Mark Messier
>> You also need to add: >> kern.smp.active = 1 >> kern.smp.cpus = 1 What? I've never added lines like those... They always seem to have the correct values for me: Here it is on 4.8: # sysctl -a | grep smp machdep.smp_active: 1 machdep.smp_cpus: 2 and 5.3: # sysctl -a | grep smp kern.ti

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
Andrea Milani wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: well, wikipedia says this (something that i just now learned about standard pentium4 line of processors) [wikipedia] HyperThreading was present in all Northwood CPUs, but was disabled in the core in all but the 3.06 GHz model. [/wikipedia] That'

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:57:15PM +0200, Andrea Milani wrote: > Jonathan Horne wrote: > >well, wikipedia says this (something that i just now learned about > >standard pentium4 line of processors) > >[wikipedia] > >HyperThreading was present in all Northwood CPUs, but was disabled in the > >core

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-04 Thread Andrea Milani
Jonathan Horne wrote: well, wikipedia says this (something that i just now learned about standard pentium4 line of processors) [wikipedia] HyperThreading was present in all Northwood CPUs, but was disabled in the core in all but the 3.06 GHz model. [/wikipedia] That's not true. I have a 2.

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-03 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 20:57:21 -0400 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 07:45:55PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: > > building a new system, processor is: > > > > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2793.20-MHz 686-class CPU) > > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf2

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 07:45:55PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: > building a new system, processor is: > > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2793.20-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 > Features=0xbfebfbff PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR