Hi Sandy,
At 11:41 AM 1/3/00 -0500, Sandy Harris wrote:
>I'd like to run one copy of the search code in such a way that it
>monopolises one CPU, in hopes it will succeed relatively quickly.
>Is there a way to do that?
Yes. Run mprime -m and choose Advanced/Priority. Enter a value of 9
instead of the default value of 1. Now let me explain why you don't want to
do that. Assume the other tasks you run every day require 1000 CPU seconds.
No matter what priority you run mprime at there are only 2*86400 - 1000
CPU seconds available. Raising mprime's priority will slow down the other
tasks but not improve mprime's throughput at all.
>I'm assuming here that there's no multi-threading in the search code,
>that it would not be useful to try and run one search using both CPUs.
>Is that accurate?
You are correct. Run one mprime with no arguments and run the second
mprime with the "-A1" argument.
Hope that helps,
George
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