Hello William, Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 10:04:24 PM, you wrote:
WR> Ok, I have my new machine running swimmingly, but I have a couple of WR> applicatioions that don't like running on multiple core processors. I can WR> set the affinity during launch and the program runs perfectly, but this is WR> something that I have to do every time. WR> I checked the Microsoft knowledge base, and came away somewhat confused, as WR> it appears to be written for people who know far more than I do. Under Vista you can start notepad on CPU 0 with the command: c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 notepad.exe affinity 1 is CPU0 affinity 2 is CPU1 If you don't want to type that every time, you can make a shortcut on your desktop. As others have told you, don't do this unless you absolutely have to. AFAIK it is not possible to do this under XP (there is no /affinity switch on XP). WR> Thinking out loud time, would there be an advantage to having, for example, WR> all the background services running on one CPU, and then having big WR> applications like Photoshop running on the other one? No, that would be slower. -- Attila -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
