Mac – See if Mac OS X has enabled hyperthreading

I suspect the volume has to be mounted first before you'll be able to acces it.

% cd /Volumes/[you server/volume name here]/Users/Shared/

Or you should use ssh.

From the Intel Core Processor Datasheet, Volume 1, page 38:

Intel Hyper-Threading Technology

[...] This feature must be enabled using the BIOS and requires operating system support.

This is because hyperthreading is actual physical hardware on the CPU die, and thus can be enabled/disabled on a hardware level only.

If you know which application does not work well with hyperthreading, you can use a tool like StartAffinity if you have XP.

If you use Windows 7, there is a built in start command that can do this. Use the following command to launch a process with a particular processor affinity (again, the /AFFINITY argument was only added in Windows 7):

start /AFFINITY <mask> "C:\yourprogram.exe" 

Where <mask> should be replaced with the hexadecimal mask for the processors you want to run (the processor mask is just a binary mask enabling/disabling that affinity, so 00000101 enables CPU0 and CPU2, and 00000010 enables only CPU1).

To calculate the hex value, you can either convert the binary mask, or take the sum of 2 to the power of the cores you want to run the program on (starting from 0), and convert that value to hexadecimal.

For example, if I have a four-core system, and only want the process to execute on CPU0 and CPU2, I would add 2⁰ + 2² = 1 + 4 = 5. Convert 5 to hex, which is just 5, and set that as your <mask>. You could also just convert 00000101 to hex as well. If you don't know how to convert these bases, you can just use this conversion table.