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SubjectRe: Knowing which task is current in a CPU [ SMP ]


On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Frank Butter wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, merblich wrote:
> > Did you ever get you answer to:
> > "What does it mean "the answer is inherently out of date" ? :-)"
> > This means any time you ask which process is on a CPU,
> > by the time you get a answer, even on a MP system, the process
> > may no longer be on that CPU.
>
> it's the same with top, isn't it? but this is still a helpful tool.
> you have a snapshot and can compare the values you got with others like
> this cpu's usage at that time etc.
> and you even can see your application "movin' arund" on the cpu's.
>

I'm sorry - I just read that again and found I was a bit quick ;-)

> but one question: in design, where every cpu has it's own cage,
> does it make sense to put a process on a different cpu each second ???

frank


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