[Asterisk-Users] Digium G.729 codec modules updated

Kevin P. Fleming kpfleming at digium.com
Sat Oct 8 15:13:12 MST 2005


Eric Bishop wrote:
> On a dual processor Xeon (EM64T) would you reccomend turning hypertreading
> on or off? I tend go for it off dual processor machines just in case 2
> processes end up on the one physical processor rather than 2 processes on 2
> different physical processors. What do you think?

I have no opinion; it would require real-world testing to know for sure.

My instincts tell me that HT would be counter-productive when running 
lots of transcoding, though, since HT CPUs don't have two FPUs. 
Dual-core CPUs do, obviously, so that would be a different situation.



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