Hyperthreading on W2K Server
In a whitepaper published by Brian Madden ("Terminal Server Performance Tuning") he states that:
"Whether you should enable Hyperthreading in a Terminal Server environment depends on
which operating system you’re using. At the time of this writing, enabling Hyperthreading on
Windows 2000 servers causes stability problems and actually decreases the overall performance
of the system."
The whitepaper is dated August 2003 and dealt with mostly Metaframe XP.
Just curious if anyone thinks this still (or ever did) have any merit. He doesn't go into a lot of detail as to why but I know he is quite the TS guru so I'm inclined to believe him. I do have some servers with hyperthreading enabled and don't know of any stability issues, but I was wondering about the performance.
"Whether you should enable Hyperthreading in a Terminal Server environment depends on
which operating system you’re using. At the time of this writing, enabling Hyperthreading on
Windows 2000 servers causes stability problems and actually decreases the overall performance
of the system."
The whitepaper is dated August 2003 and dealt with mostly Metaframe XP.
Just curious if anyone thinks this still (or ever did) have any merit. He doesn't go into a lot of detail as to why but I know he is quite the TS guru so I'm inclined to believe him. I do have some servers with hyperthreading enabled and don't know of any stability issues, but I was wondering about the performance.
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In our environment we have always left Hyperthreading on. Is it optimal for our environment, I don't know since we've never tested with it on / with it off.
My environment vs. your environment will obviously vary. Unless your clients are reporting issues or your trying to push your servers to the MAX, I don't know if disabling Hyperthreading will really make that much difference.
We had planned on testing this, but are currently moving everything to W2K3/Citrix 4.0 and from what I've read there is no issue in the W2K3 environment with Hyperthreading.
Maybe other people on this board have some experience with this.
My environment vs. your environment will obviously vary. Unless your clients are reporting issues or your trying to push your servers to the MAX, I don't know if disabling Hyperthreading will really make that much difference.
We had planned on testing this, but are currently moving everything to W2K3/Citrix 4.0 and from what I've read there is no issue in the W2K3 environment with Hyperthreading.
Maybe other people on this board have some experience with this.
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I guess nobody else is going to post... thanks for the input.
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