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Subject: Re: SURPRISING RESULTS P4 Xeon dual 2.8Ghz

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:46:59 12/17/02

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On December 17, 2002 at 12:36:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On December 17, 2002 at 12:10:34, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On December 17, 2002 at 12:04:44, Matt Taylor wrote:
>>
>>>On December 17, 2002 at 11:40:37, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 17, 2002 at 10:31:02, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>It doesn't necessarily get slower.  And once you move to windows .new, or
>>>>>the new linux kernel gets fixed, this won't happen at all as both of these
>>>>>systems will understand that two threads need to run on two physical processors
>>>>>rather than on two logical processors on the same physical processor...
>>>>>
>>>>>what is your point?  This is a sudden revellation to you?  :)
>>>>
>>>>Yes. The thing is, Microsoft is _specifically_ advertising Windows XP
>>>>(which was used for this test) as 'HyperThreading optimized'.
>>>>
>>>>This test shows that that should be taken with a few mountains
>>>>of salt, considering the OS cannot even schedule correctly!
>>>>
>>>>This means that _right now_, there are severe issues with HT
>>>>on a dual system. And they won't be resolved until a next generation
>>>>of OS comes out.
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>GCP
>>>
>>>Windows .net Server = Windows XP Server
>>
>>The tests were run on Windows XP Professional. Is the XP Server
>>scheduler smarter?
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>in general 'server' is hell slower for computerchess as it is doing anything
>first before executing the engine processes :)


IN general you can't tell the difference.  I have benched NT workstation and
NT server, and could find no performance difference at all which is not a
surprise.  Unless you fire up a web server application and other such stuff,
which would kill any machine anyway...




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