<OT> I love my wife...

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 26 December 2005 19:04, Jerry McBride wrote:
> Anyways, I spent part of the day playing with my new laptop and I just
> gotta share some insights with you. First off, Hyper Transport, where in
> when enabled, linux will report two cpu's instead of one... It's sucks,
> just like I figured it would. Never mind the fact that the alsasound driver
> for this laptop fails to load while in smp mode, but overall performance
> takes a nose dive when both "pretend" cpu's are enabled. Just waiting for
> the laptop to full boot, shutdown or just compile a kernel with it enabled
> is like watching a slow motion movie... And this is a selling point for the
> P4s???

Something must be wrong....   I also thought that a hyperthreading CPU would 
only steal cycles from each other and would in total amount to one cpu at 
best.  But on a challenge from someone on the SuSE list, I ran some test with 
setiathome and found that damn, I could do about 95% x 2 work using 
hyperthreading.  It does work.  Don't know why it doesn't show on your 
laptop.