On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:20 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have a Thinkpad T61 with Intel Core2 Duo at 2.00 GHz on which I have > Jaunty x86_64. At the moment I am trying to print a couple of pages of > a PDF from Okular and it is taking forever to image. While I watch the > progress in System Monitor I note that the CPUs switch back and forth. > That is, for a while CPU1 will be at or near 100% and CPU2 will be > around 30%. After a while they swap and CPU1 will be at 30% or so and > CPU2 will be at or near 100%. I get the same results from Adobe Reader > 9.1. However, Adobe Reader is so slow that I killed it after waiting 20 > minutes. > > I am wondering how Linux decides which CPU to use for which process. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > I don't know which apps are multi-threaded but if they are they can use both CPU's which could be why it's bouncing back and forth between the 2. How big are the PDF's you're working with? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
