Will disabling hyperthreading improve performance on our SQL Server install
- by Sam Saffron
Related to: Current wisdom on SQL Server and Hyperthreading
Recently we upgraded our Windows 2008 R2 database server from an X5470 to a X5560. The theory is both CPUs have very similar performance, if anything the X5560 is slightly faster.
However, SQL Server 2008 R2 performance has been pretty bad over the last day or so and CPU usage has been…