From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Dec 10 19:07:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02401 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:07:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from poboxer.pobox.com (port7.prairietech.net [208.141.230.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02396 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:07:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alk@poboxer.pobox.com) Received: (from alk@localhost) by poboxer.pobox.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA08200; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:07:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from alk) From: Tony Kimball MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:07:03 -0600 (CST) X-Face: \h9Jg:Cuivl4S*UP-)gO.6O=T]]@ncM*tn4zG);)lk#4|lqEx=*talx?.Gk,dMQU2)ptPC17cpBzm(l'M|H8BUF1&]dDCxZ.c~Wy6-j,^V1E(NtX$FpkkdnJixsJHE95JlhO 5\M3jh'YiO7KPCn0~W`Ro44_TB@&JuuqRqgPL'0/{):7rU-%.*@/>q?1&Ed Reply-To: alk@pobox.com To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pthreads and SMP References: <199812102103.WAA24473@kairos.algonet.se> <199812110150.SAA09778@usr09.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13936.35389.443798.776169@avalon.east> Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoth Terry Lambert on Fri, 11 December: : The latter, and not on purpose, but merely as an artifact of how : the scheduler works. I guess it's relative. I can sit here and watch top ping back and forth between 2 CPUs roughly 50% of the time. A pretty crude data source, admittedly, but one that indicates an absence of affinity. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message