[H-GEN] Hyperthreading and CPU utilisation

[Robert Brockway]

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On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Michael Anthon wrote:

> This is pretty much the conclusion I came to, it just took me a while to
> wrap my thinking around it.  It's hard, having become so used to being
> able to accurately measure performance.  I should have a better idea

I think compressed filesystems (or filesystems full of compresses files)
provide a good analogy.  How much date can we pack on the rest of the
compressed filesystem?  Depends on the type of data being compressed.
Similarly when using HyperThreading (or indeed any multi-cou system) the
exact performance depends on the type of applications in use.

Rob

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