[Info-vax] Disable hyper-threading from the DCL prompt

[clairgrant71 at gmail.com]

On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 4:28:55 PM UTC-5, JF Mezei wrote:
> Question:
> 
> Will the move to x86 require VMS add support for fancy CPU features that
> can be turned on/off like hyperthreading ?
> 
> Operating systens liek OS-X seem to have plenty of automated features
> for energy saving, core managemnt, shutting down cores when not needed
> etc.  Wondering if VMS will HAVE to support any of those, or "SHOULD"
> surpport any of those or whether those are more marketing PR gimmicks
> that are not actually needed in real data centres ?

VMS provides the low-level interfaces to some features like these on Itanium and I assume we will on x86. It is then a matter for system management applications to use them.