24 Jul
2002
24 Jul
'02
07:42
John Alvord wrote:
The usual explanation is that the monitoring program and the terminal program (or X-Windows) are both interactive and bump the compute intensive tasks off... when they return they return randomly to the free CPU. A bit of hesenberg uncertainity if you know atomic physics...
I can understand the processor switching but why the 50/50 or even stranger 25/75 split? But how can a single threaded process be split accross more that one CPU and why the odd ratio? It's as if the chipset were deciding where to run the jobs, not the kernel. -- Simon Oliver