[Nottingham] Multi-processor machines

Mike Cardwell lug at blubbernet.com
Thu Feb 10 17:52:46 GMT 2005


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Robert Hart wrote:

>> I could work around the problem of not being able to choose a cpu if a
>> particular process could identify which cpu it was running on too. That
>> must be possible.
> Processes will move around from one CPU to another. If you have two
> processes running they will end up on different CPUs regardless of when
> they started or how long they have been running for.

That's the piece of knowledge I was missing. I thought once a process was 
running on a cpu, it would stay on that cpu for it's lifetime. Guess I 
don't need to do anything special in this case then. Thanks.

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