Eric Melski wrote: > Oops, should have had my coffee before responding. :) I see now the > synchronization occurs outside the invocation of the process, so the > process won't be able to acquire any other resources, because it won't > actually have started. > > I suppose if you're looking at a really, really massively parallel > system you might have concerns with swamping the process table with > effectively idle processes though.
It is or could be more of a problem on standard multi-cores with e.g. 4 or 8 execution units. Even just one process tied up unnecessarily will reduce the overall utilization. /Per Jessen, Zürich _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
