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Subject: Re: Hyper-Threading question for Crafty Smp and Windows XP Home

Author: Dragon

Date: 02:24:22 03/22/04

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On March 20, 2004 at 22:56:53, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On March 19, 2004 at 08:41:02, Dragon wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I posted on Arena Forum a test on Crafty SMP 1 and 2.
>>I have P4C 3.2Ghz/Motherboard P4C800EDL and Windows XP Home.
>>
>>My test shows that I have about the same result with the command
>>"bench" with HT=on.
>>
>>I read on the net that XP Home can do Hyperthreading.
>>
>>Why I have not the same good result than others persons with HT ?
>>I think that all is perfect with my HT. I have two cpus screens
>>in my "task manager" and I have the option on my motherboard.
>>
>>Somebody can say to me where I am wrong ?
>>
>>Bruno LUCAS
>
>
>did you add mt=2 to tell crafty to use a second thread???
>
>If not it will only use 1...

Yes ! I use mt=2. Crafty says [2 cpus].

I think that Hyperthreading works because in the task manager, I have the two
screens. One for each logical procs.
This last week end. I retry the test and I have always the same result.
I use Crafty-1910 SMP from the site of Dan Corbit.

Bruno LUCAS



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