My comment was from a user perspective. I don't mind the performance increase from HT (and that is why I still have it enabled). But, it really bothers me that

My comment was from a user perspective. I don't mind the performance increase from HT (and that is why I still have it enabled). But, it really bothers me that it gets much harder to assess both the total load and the load produced by a single process. I haven't found any useful info on how to deal with this in simple overview user-level tools such as top or the windows task manager. What are the disadvantages? CPU time accounting measurements (sys/usr/idle) as reported by standard tools do not reflect the side-effects of resource sharing between hardware threads It is impossible to correctly measure idle and extrapolate available computing resources https://blogs.oracle.com/partnertech/cpu-utilization-of-multi-threaded-architectures-explained https://blogs.oracle.com/partnertech/cpu-utilization-of-mult...