> > Paralleling obviously works great for human interaction (one web > > page loading while reading another). But if the processes are using > > up all the cpu, paralleling shouldn't help unless there is a piece > > of hardware/peripheral it's waiting for, right? > > > > once the kernel's up, you've got a multi-tasking OS at hand. No matter > how busy a given process is, there's resource for others; otherwise, > your computer would lock up every time a process hangs.
But if that is true, doesn't that mean that there's unused cpu ? If it's using 99% of the cpu, and then another process starts in parallel, they probably each get 49% of the cpu, with a little left over for safety. (just picking arbitrary numbers). Is that right? Just trying to understand this better... -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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