Istvan Gabor wrote:
I have another question. Can the operation system/programs take advantage of multiple processors? Can one application use only one processor or more? Does this depend on the specific program or how the OS sorts tasks?
Yes, the operating system takes advantage of multiple processors (and cores and threads). Linux and Unix before it have been leaders in this area. Whether an application can use more than one processor depends on the application. Typically, an application that can do so is called "multi-threaded" or "parallelised". One important case is applications that have a graphical interface. Well written applications of this type usually use one processor for the graphical interface and at least one other processor to do whatever other processing the application does. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org