[TriLUG] hyperthreading, smp, and irqbalance

[Dane Miller]

Kevin Flanagan wrote:
> Turning on HT would depend, are you CPU bound?  If so, and you aren't IO 
> bound then it may be a good move. 

Nope, not CPU bound.  And yes, IO bound a lot of the time.  systat shows
that iowait% accounts for very near the total CPU utilization (pretty
graph showing CPU usage at http://briteideas.blogspot.com/2006/05/cpu-utilization-on-p4-28ghz-fileserver.html).

>From the responses so far, I think I'll stick with my non-SMP kernel.

Thanks to those who weighed in,
Dane