Hi, first of all, thnx. :) On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:43:20PM +0000, Christopher Browne wrote: > If you have a single process, spreading it across multiple CPUs > requires that the application be designed to use threading. Many > applications do not do so. Fortunately, the OS kernel will fairly > happily allocate processes across the CPUs, so that if you are running > multiple processes, you can certainly expect to harness both cores. Ok, the schedular is not only managing multiple prozesses on one CPU but, if enables, over serveral CPU. > If you do a lot of compiling, you can take advantage of the GNU Make > "-j" option to spawn multiple concurrent processes; those will > certainly be expected to harness multiple CPUs. :) Ok, I was not sure that is working with only enabling SMP in the kernel. Thnx. Regards. Jan
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