Re: P4 HT --> enable SMP?

[Ivan Voras <ivoras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

firefly wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> > :Naive end-user question:
> > :Not understanding how SMP is implemented, does enabling SMP make a 
> > :difference for single CPU P4 HT?
> > :
> > :Thanks.
> >
> >     I don't know.  If you have such a beast try it and tell us what
> >     happens!  I would expect that it would not make a big difference.
> >
> >                     -Matt
> >                     Matthew Dillon                     
> > <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Matt,
> I am happy to run a comparison with SMP and without.
> Do you know off hand a reasonable test to compare the two? Make 
> buildworld time?

make -jX buildworld could be a good test (what are the suggestions for 
X? I'd say 4). Maybe also ports/benchmarks/nbench.