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SMP?

Posted Apr 1, 2012 21:38 UTC (Sun) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: SMP? by ScottMinster
Parent article: Toward better NUMA scheduling

This was a well-known failure mode with - I think - NT4.

If you were running a single heavy-CPU process the scheduler would make it jump from CPU to CPU as it tried to balance the load ... :-)

Cheers,
Wol


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