[mythtvnz] HDHomerun - VLC on Linux - Yes - well sort of!

[Tortise]

If it is hyperthreading that's effectively splitting my CPU in half, wouldn't I be better to turn it off and make all of it 
available?
When I get a chance to reboot I'll see if I can turn it off in the mBoard BIOS, unless you suggest otherwise?
{Ref http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=895077 the ht=on is not found.}

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jean-Yves Avenard" <jyavenard at gmail.com>
To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] HDHomerun - VLC on Linux - Yes - well sort of!


Hi

2009/3/28 Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz>:
> Hi Jean-Yves
> With a great deal of respect, if I may, the problem I have is it is a single core CPU!
> It is a hyperthreaded 3000 intel, however I understood hyperthreading was a Redmond thing and yet to come in Linux?
> Can you clarify the percentages any further?

Hyperthreading has been supported by Linux (and other unix variant
like FreeBSD) for almost as long as hyperthreading has existed...

With Hyperthreading, it still adds a virtual CPU so it would be still
the same... except this time the way linux reports makes it incorrect
as the load is heaps greater than 55%.

As for the percentage.
Say you have two CPU.
One process uses 100% of one CPU, the other 10%. The average load of
the system is 55%