Comments on: Does hyperthreading hurt server performance?

Some in the IT industry are complaining that Intel's chip technology causes server performance problems.

[stumiller]

RTFM

Even a plain old consumer like me realised that HT was not designed for a single "thread itensive application" but rather for running multiple applications at once. The examples Intel gave were playing a game and rendering a video ... very home-user centric usage. Is anyone suprised?

[Mr. Network]

You make a very good point

but that is not where the problems stop. For a SQL server to have crappy perfomance something has already gone awry if it's crapping out on the processor level. Shoddy programming or DB administration is likely the culprit. We run multiple SQL servers in our shop sitting on stacks of XEONs and we haven't had one processing related issue. These people need to send thier Indians back to programming school and quit letting the Russians setup thier networks. They are not so leetski!