[Gllug] Moving processor between boxes

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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Adrian McMenamin stipulated:
> Benchmarks are pretty poor approximations to the real world in this case.
> Think of a typical server - handling web driven database queries - or a
> desktop - waiting for user input as well as email.

Waiting for user input doesn't require a CPU: and `email' isn't
computationally intensive (even spam scanning is memory-bound).

But `X server on one CPU, X client on another' certainly stands.

> In any case the kernel itself has more than one thread of execution
> running.

The kernel has several threads, most of which do very little except
under conditions of high load or unusual events like RAID
resynchronization or pvmoves.

Most kernel-space work is done by ordinary processes running in kernel
mode.

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