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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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