Re: Poor thread performance on multi-CPU machines

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From: Michael Powell
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 06:47

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Processes not threads.

"Alan Bellingham" <alanb@episys.com> wrote in message
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> Alan Bellingham <alanb@episys.com> wrote:
>
> >A _thread_ can only execute on one CPU (or pseudo-CPU in the case of
> >Hyperthreading)
>                 ^
>                   at a time (I should mention)
>
> On a multiprocessor PC, you'll often find threads jumping from processor
> to processor, as the task scheduler attempts to balance load. Unless
> they've had their properties set to be confined to fewer.
>
> Alan Bellingham
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