Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:39:28 +0800 (CST) | From | Frank Butter <> | Subject | Re: Knowing which task is current in a CPU [ SMP ] |
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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 "What does it mean "the answer is inherently out of date" ?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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