Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 23 May 2001 09:13:47 +0000
From:      "David S. Geirsson" <andmann@andmann.eu.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SMP question
Message-ID:  <20010523091347.B1083@bong.andmann.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010523093738.A76823@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:37:39AM %2B0930
References:  <20010522125544.C2342@bong.andmann.eu.org> <20010523093738.A76823@wantadilla.lemis.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Well, for example if I would want a process to run with minimal interruption
from other processes, I would like to be able to run it on one processor,
then just run everything else on the other one. Then again, I suppose it
would get plenty of CPU by changing its nice level.

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:37:39AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 May 2001 at 12:55:44 +0000, David S. Geirsson wrote:
> > I don't have an SMP system, but I might buy one in the near future. I just
> > have one question, having never used SMP: Can I specify which CPU a process
> > runs on? I.E., I want to start process X, and it should run on CPU #0, but
> > process Y should run on CPU #1. Is this possible? How?
> 
> No.  The scheduler chooses which CPU to run processes on.  In the
> course of execution they will probably run on all processors.  Why
> would you want to outguess the scheduler? 
> 
> Greg
> --
> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients.
> If you don't, I may ignore the reply.
> For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html
> Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key
> See complete headers for address and phone numbers

-- 
Davíð Steinn Geirsson
andmann@andmann.eu.org
(354)-8696608

"Support staff hung over, Send aspirin and come back LATER."

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010523091347.B1083>