On 2/13/08, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thinking out loud time, would there be an advantage to having, for example, > all the background services running on one CPU, and then having big > applications like Photoshop running on the other one?
There are actually disadvantages to this approach, in that the operating system is usually much better about delegating resources than you could ever be. Remember also that any halfway recent version of Photoshop is multiple-processor aware, and will run faster if it has the resources of two processors to use. That being said, on the servers that I admin (Sun Solaris). I can do this. It's usually only done to keep a particular application from "swamping" the box during periods of heavy load. If you do it wrong, you end up bringing a lot of expensive hardware to its knees with trivial tasks. I can't answer the affinity question for Windows unfortunately. -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
