Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/10/11/14:02:17
Tom Rodman wrote:
> On Thu 10/11/07 10:05 CDT Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Tom Rodman wrote:
>>> Is there a way to prove that a given process with more than 1 thread,
>>> is still restricted to just one CPU?
>> Unless you have manually set affinity, why would this be true? More
>> likely, only one thread is actually doing anything.
>
> Thanks Matthew.
>
> I meant to ask:
>
> Is there a way to prove that a given process with more than 1
> thread, must always have all it's threads on a single CPU at
> any given time ( over the life of the process, I assume the all
> it's threads could shift from CPU to CPU)?
Well... unless you have set affinity, I don't know of any reason why a
multi-threaded application would have all of its threads end up on only
a single CPU to begin with*. As for whether or not threads can migrate,
I would assume they can, although I don't really know for sure. (On
Linux, under constant load, they don't seem to. On Windows it seems like
even single-threaded applications tend to be distributed across multiple
cores.)
(* for the nitpickers: "unless of course you only /have/ one CPU".)
Anyway, this isn't really a Cygwin question any more, you would do
better asking on a Windows forum. If you wish to discuss this further,
it should probably be taken to cygwin-talk.
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Matthew
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