From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Nov 4 23:43:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se [194.237.142.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252F715868 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:43:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Joachim.Strombergson@emw.ericsson.se) Received: from poem.emw.ericsson.se (poem.emw.ericsson.se [136.225.49.25]) by penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (8.9.3/8.9.3/WIREfire-1.5) with ESMTP id IAA21228 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 08:43:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from emw.ericsson.se (balvenie.mo.emw.ericsson.se [136.225.229.97]) by poem.emw.ericsson.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA26343 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 08:43:12 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <38228A90.B00F2E8C@emw.ericsson.se> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 08:43:12 +0100 From: Joachim Strombergson Organization: Ericsson Microwave Systems AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-EMW [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-smp Subject: Affinity Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! I've missed the message boats a few times so... Could anyone explain the affinity thing again. If I understood it correctly, it's used to lock a process to a certain CPU. When running say a SETI@Home and some other apps at the same time, and then check top, I see a behaviour for the SETI process where the status goes something like: CPU0->RUN->CPU1->RUN->CPU0.... Does that mean that the process is bouncing back and forth between the CPUs? Any help and explanations would be very much appreciated. BTW: I'm running a Dual Celeron on ABIT BP6 machine with FreeBSD 3.3 STABLE. -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning ---------------- Ericsson Microwave Systems AB ----------------- Joachim Strömbergson http://www.ericsson.se/microwave ASIC System on Silicon engineer, nice to CUTE animals. * Opinions above, expressed or implicit, are strictly personal * ------------- Spamfodder: regeringen@regeringen.se ------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message