Novell NetWare 6 performance tuning guidelines for ProLiant servers

Results: With a workload of 60 clients, the ProLiant ML570 G2 server configured with a

single processor provided an average of 37% more throughput with hyper-threading

disabled compared to when hyper-threading was enabled.

figure 8. effects of hyper-threading on NetBench performance: quad processors

Performance Effects of Hyper-Threading (HT) on Netbench Test

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Results: With a workload of 60 clients, the ProLiant ML570 G2 server configured with

four processors provided an average of 29% more throughput with hyper-threading

disabled compared to when hyper-threading was enabled.

figure 9. effects of hyper-threading on WebBench performance: single processor

Performance Effects of Hyper-Threading (HT) on WebBench Test

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Results: With a workload of 60 clients, the ProLiant ML570 G2 server configured with a

single processor provided an average of 8% more throughput with hyper-threading

disabled compared to when hyper-threading was enabled.