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From: Till Plewe <till@score.is.tsukuba.ac.jp>
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Subject: Re: second CPU not utilized
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:59:38AM +0900, Till Plewe wrote:
> 
> Does anybody have an idea why the second cpu is not used for the 
> computing intensive work?
> 
> idle will stay around 50% while the two instances of python2.4 share 1 CPU
> 
> The only unusual occurence recently were a few Bus Errors and the system freezing
> when two processes which were using around 2-4GB of memory each were running

I forgot to mention that until the system froze last night both instances were
running at 99% using both CPUs. The current behaviour started after rebooting.

- Till