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Hyperthreading (SMT) is disabled by default, SMP works just fine.


To add to that, if you need the (max ~30%) performance boost (less on OpenBSD as a some parts of the kernel are still poorly performant in SMP scenarios, it's improving but still noticeable), it's possible to enable hyperthreading temporarily via

    doas sysctl hw.smt=1
I do this occasionally when running larger compilations (LLVM or similar). If you want it enabled permanently you can add

    hw.smt=1
to /etc/sysctl.conf


Correct thanks




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