On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Istvan Gabor
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?
My system is running on an AMD965 Black Edition... and the OS takes care of distributing tasks to the CPU, and does the job well. Sometimes I have a task running at 100% on one CPU and my system remains fully responsive and tasks are running on other CPU cores. If I set up a compile task I can control how many cores get involved and even max out all cores if I want (the fans get loud when I do that though). A while ago, Joe Brockmeier wrote an article about setting CPU affinity for specific apps using taskset. Worth a read if you're interested in doing this stuff.... http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3915931/Using-Taskset-for-P... C. -- openSUSE 12.1 x86_64, KDE 4.8.3 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org