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Subject: Re: Odd hyperthreading behavior

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 18:09:05 10/04/03

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On October 04, 2003 at 21:00:34, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>The odd part is that hyperthreading DOES slow down my program when running 2
>threads.

This is caused by the schedulers not knowing the difference between the
real and virtual cpus. You're only running on 1 cpu instead of 2 about
1/3 of the time.

Win2k3 is the only OS that has this reportedly solved.

--
GCP



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