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From: Phil Ehrens (pehrens_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-24 16:10:30


Luke Palmer wrote:
>
> I have a conceptual question. All my nodes are dual Xeon, which appear
> to have four logical processors each due to hyperthreading. Would there
> be any advantage to starting four lam processes per node, rather than
> two, or is this just silly?

You should do a performance test, but I would say it's
probably a loser.

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