My understanding is "according to design" it should do it automatically. My experience is it does, sort of. But the app has to be multi-threaded (by the OS definition, not just context-mapped like Java green threads) for it to ever use more than one processor at the same time. If your single-threaded then for obvious reasons NT will tend to give the next time-slice to the same processor if it's not busy, so it looks like you're stuck on the same one much of the time.
With the task manager you can set "processor affinity" on MP machines from the right-click menu of the process. This limits which of the N processors will be used to schedule your process. So you can limit one processor hog to 1 or 2 processors and let the well behaved programs run freely on the others. I don't know how to do this using non-gui tools or to set it up at start time, and your userid has to have permission to do it (essentially you have to be running as the process owner). But it's a starting point for research :). "Boivin, Patrice J" wrote: > I am probably just complaining now, I think I know the answer already. > > Is it possible to force Windows2000 to "spread the load" for one application > to 2 or more CPUs, from the OS side? > > Regards, > Patrice Boivin > Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) > > Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des syst�mes > Technology Services | Services technologiques > Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique > Maritimes Region, DFO | R�gion des Maritimes, MPO > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Boivin, Patrice J > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
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