sure. when I'm running something that will have more than 2 threads like loads, I'll glance at top. If you read dmesg, you'll see that the runqueues of the logical cpus are mapped the physical ones. In a dual CPU system, CPUs 0 and 2 (physical) are typically busy and CPUs 1 and 3 are typically idle. gzipping 4 files in parallel would probably be a good way to compare. I haven't been ambitious enough to produce any benchmarks on it, as that box only had a 4 drive RAID 0 volume. After it gets an external storage unit attached, I'll think about checking out benchmarks - when IO wait doesn't dominate. Paul On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:21:59 -0700 (PDT), David <thump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Linux RHAS 3.0 > Anyone evaluated CPU hyperthreading for an Oracle 9204 or 9205 db? > -- > .. > David > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l