Running A P4 3.0ghz

SuicideDogSuicideDog Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8104Members
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I will be upgrading my server to a p4 3.0 when the prices drop a little .. but I was curious.. I'm running linux and I've heard that you get worse performance out of a dual processor systems cuz hlds wasn't designed to run on SMP.. so with hyperthreading on the new proc and it seeming like two procs instead of one to the OS .. is this going to hurt more than help me?
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  • DrGigglesDrGiggles Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8833Members
    I run SMP kernels, and all it does it puts a hlds on one CPU rather than share the load across both CPUs. So unless you want to run multiple servers in multiples of your CPU count, it's not really worth they money.
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  • SuicideDogSuicideDog Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8104Members
    well I'm wondering if the max I will ever be able to goto and not have to deal with the HLDS problems is a 2.8 proc!!
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  • MellonpoprMellonpopr Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2304Members
    I've yet to see any numbers from the new p4 "hyperthreading" technology ;(
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  • Poison-XPoison-X Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7590Members
    hyper threading would only hurt you if you ran 1 server but for multiple servers it would help somewhat
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  • VadakillVadakill The Almighty BSO Join Date: 2002-04-02 Member: 373Members, NS1 Playtester
    According to tomshardware.com the only operating system that supports hyperthreading is WindowsXP. I'm not sure if the Linux multiproccessor kernel will treat hyperthreading the same way. If I'm wrong and someone has seen a review of it running on linux toss me the URL so I can check it out. I'd love to find out either way because I find that hyperthreading technology to be very intriguing.
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  • GreyPawsGreyPaws Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8659Members
    ARG... just go to Intels site its plain as day, the only OSs that can even utilize HT (hyper threading) are XP, and the new .net crap thats comming out soon

    dont waste your money, the benchmarks say you only get a 400 point boost from 2.8 to 3.06ht if you using the right mobo (prolly an asusp4t533) with samsung 32bit ram.... stick with 2.8 if you running linux
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  • SuicideDogSuicideDog Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8104Members
    edited November 2002
    I know my win2k machines see them as 2 procs... I'm not saying anyone is wrong.. I'm just wondering if it does use it or not..
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Hyperthreading works just fine on Win2000 whatever TH.com says. I've run it with Win2000 Advanced server and standard server, as well as in Cluster servers. You will should see a fairly big performance improvement in most Win32 compiled processes running on a HT-ed CPU. From running Citrix metaframe over Win2k on a P4 Xeon 1.6Ghz (4-way) machine compared to a Xeon 900Mhz non-HT )4-way) machine, it came out using about half the processing power (and about roughly twice the performance) in both synthetic benchmarks and in practical usage. Very signifigant.
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