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norwoodthree_at_my-deja.com (NorwoodThree) wrote in message news:<ba03e2c.0402141225.413103b3_at_posting.google.com>...
> Something else to consider-
>
> On the Linux side, I know that if you use Dell equipment and a Pentium
> 4 processor, you can enable hyper-threading for the processor in the
> BIOS. This essentially gives you 2 processors in one. It basically
> is a virtual 2 processor configuration.
>
> Not sure if Windows takes advantages of the HyperThreading, but Linux
> and Oracle do. And it is fully supported.
Norwood, my apologies. There is actually a performance advantage associated with Hyper-threading. I had been misinformed before. Received on Sun Feb 15 2004 - 00:05:14 CST