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Date:      Mon, 1 Dec 1997 12:02:59 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@korin.warman.org.pl>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP: binding process to CPU
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.971201120020.8098D-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971129154536.14983E-100000@shell.uniserve.com>

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On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Tom wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> 
> > Here's why I'm asking: I have one process which must be as near real-time
> > as possible, and the second process processes it's output (which is
> 
>   Use rtprio on that process.  If the priority is high enough, the process
> will pretty much hog a CPU.  This can be dangerous, as other processes
> may not run at all, but on SMP there is at least one more CPU for other
> processes to run on.

Well, yes... But I'm pretty sure that the same process gets scheduled on
BOTH processors  (I don't know how actually the scheduler does it,
though). So I think that if I bounce rtprio high enough, the process in
question will monopolize BOTH CPU's. Am I right?

Andrzej Bialecki

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