On 7/19/05, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my head spins. me thinks it would be VERY nice if you could just tell prime95 > how many instances to run on a multiprocessor, and it defaults to running them > on the 'best' virtual processors... having to configure two copies of the > program (or two shortcuts with -A1 or whatever), ugh. especially nasty and > confusing with system services.
If the OS is smart and understands the difference between hyperthreaded and physical CPUs the you can do this and should be fine. I have found Windows is *not* very smart in this regard. The Linux 2.4 kernel is also the same, but the Linux 2.6 kernel understand hyperthreading and will schedule the processes accordingly in my experience. Jeff. _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
