[ubuntu-uk] Dual-Core = less not more?

[Kris Douglas]

On 27/12/2007, Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:15:18 +0000, "Kris Douglas" <webbox.uk at gmail.com>
> said:
> > Just referring to windows here, you can assign processes specific
> > positions
> > on CPU's can't you, I think it's actually set as the Affinity, like
> > cpu0,1,2,3,4 depending on your configuration. Is this not possible with
> > Ubuntu/ The Linux Kernel?
> >
> > Just wondering, normally Linux has something ahead of windows when it
> > comes
> > to this sort of thing..
>
> I'm intrigued why you'd want to do that. The scheduler should
> dynamically split processes up over however many processors you've got.
>
> It might be useful if you had hetrogenious processors and some processes
> ran faster on some of the processors? Or is it an attempt to get round
> the task switching delay when processes start by keeping cores clear for
> them?
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So your saying that the scheduler does work with 2 cores/ CPU's etc...

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