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Date:      Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:07:17 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Hugo <admin@6s-gaming.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: single threaded apps on dual cpu's
Message-ID:  <20040314030717.GA12978@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <17949.212.113.164.104.1079227560.squirrel@mail.6s-gaming.com>
References:  <17949.212.113.164.104.1079227560.squirrel@mail.6s-gaming.com>

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In the last episode (Mar 14), Hugo said:
> I have a doubt. I just read on a forum that a single threaded
> application will only use one CPU. Reading ULE's descriptive paper, I
> think this is wrong. It IS possible for a single threaded app to use
> both CPUs, who are sharing the load amongst themselves, right?

A single-threaded app can only run on one CPU, since that's what
single-threaded means.  On a dual-CPU system, both 4BSD and ULE will
run two single-threaded apps simultaneously, one on each CPU.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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