[mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

[John P Poet]

On 1/22/06, Andrew McNabb <amcnabb at mcnabbs.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:43:36PM -0500, Anthony Vito wrote:
> >
> > HyperThreading is a horrible kludge. It required every OS to rewrite
> > their process schedulers to not die context switching to an imaginary
> > processor. The Linux kernel claims to have a hyper threading aware
> > scheduler, but I've never been happy with it running on a loaded
> > server. With mythTV, you'll really won't notice any difference either
> > way, so just the standard kernel.
> >
> > Like Brian said, dual cores are a different matter. You must run the
> > SMP kernel or your not using half the silicon.
> >
>
> However much of a kludge HyperThreading is, and I don't doubt that it's
> a horrible kludge, performance on my 2.4 GHz P4 has improved
> dramatically since I enabled it.  When I'm running two CPU-intensive
> programs at the same time--an extremely common situation--latency is
> much less of an issue.  I'm really happy with the results, even if the
> design is awful.  But when dual-core processors become affordable, I'd
> love to get one.

I agree completely.  I played around with HT and found that it made a
*very* noticeable improvement to my playback.

John