RE: SMP on windows2000

I've been wondering same, logged an iTAR. Will keep you in the loop.

background (same old crap, sorry, nothing specific):

http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=7486 -
http://www.ultratech-llc.com/Personal (look for "SMP.TXT") ??? -
http://www.2cpu.com/OSs/Windows/win2kintropart1/Win2kintrop1.html ???? -
this one claims to debunk myths:

http://2cpu.com/How-To/article2.htm
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http://2cpu.com/FAQ/2cpusmpfaq.htm

http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+2000+smp

regards,
ep

On 25 Jul 2002 at 4:23, Boivin, Patrice J wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> I was thinking of the Oracle executable on Windows2000.
>
> Regards,
> Patrice Boivin
> Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: SMP on windows2000
>
> << File: Card for Don Jerman >> My understanding is "according to design"
> it should do it automatically. My
> experience is it does, sort of. But the app has to be multi-threaded (by
> the OS
> definition, not just context-mapped like Java green threads) for it to ever
> use
> more than one processor at the same time. If your single-threaded then for
> obvious reasons NT will tend to give the next time-slice to the same
> processor
> if it's not busy, so it looks like you're stuck on the same one much of the
> time.
>
> With the task manager you can set "processor affinity" on MP machines from
> the
> right-click menu of the process. This limits which of the N processors will
> be
> used to schedule your process. So you can limit one processor hog to 1 or 2
> processors and let the well behaved programs run freely on the others. I
> don't
> know how to do this using non-gui tools or to set it up at start time, and
> your
> userid has to have permission to do it (essentially you have to be running
> as
> the process owner). But it's a starting point for research :).
>
>
> "Boivin, Patrice J" wrote:
>
> > I am probably just complaining now, I think I know the answer already.
> >
> > Is it possible to force Windows2000 to "spread the load" for one
> application
> > to 2 or more CPUs, from the OS side?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Patrice Boivin
> > Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
> >
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