Re: Enable HTT with dual xeon fileserver ?

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To: "Martin Eriksson" <redacted>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: Enable HTT with dual xeon fileserver ?

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Martin Eriksson wrote:

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----- Original Message -----
From: <redacted>
To: <redacted>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 11:02 PM
Subject: Enable HTT with dual xeon fileserver ?

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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.

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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