On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 04:40:31PM -0700, Craig James wrote: > Nobody has commented on the hyperthreading question yet ... does it > really matter? The old (fast) server has hyperthreading disabled, and > the new (slower) server has hyperthreads enabled. > If hyperthreading is definitely NOT an issue, it will save me a trip to > the co-lo facility.
I doubt it would hurt much, but I wouldn't make a special trip to the co-lo to change it.
At this point I've discovered no other options, so down to the co-lo I go. I'm also going to check power-save options and the RAID controller's built-in configuration to see if I overlooked something there (readahead, blocksize, whatever).