On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Andrew Pavlis wrote:
> Ok, I understand that the kernal manages both the process
> distribution. But let's say I am running 10 game servers (for
> instance) which do not support smp. Does Linux-smp distribute the load
> over both processors? Or does it assign 1 proc here 1 proc there,
> etc? Is there a way for me to help Linux :0] ?
yes, the 10 processes will be dynamically distributed between CPUs by the
kernel. The kernel can do this much better than user-space, because it
knows about issues like cache pressure, average timeslice of a process,
process priorities and affinity.
-- mingo
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