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Date:      Mon, 25 Nov 2002 17:13:07 +0100
From:      Jan Schlesner <jschlesn@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: running many programs on multiprocessor system
Message-ID:  <20021125161307.GB85321@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
In-Reply-To: <3DE14D21.8070905@math.missouri.edu>
References:  <3DE149C7.2030607@math.missouri.edu> <3DE14D21.8070905@math.missouri.edu>

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Hi,

what's value of the priority and the nice level of each process? Have
they all the same value? Is this always the same program, which runs at
99% CPU usage or change it?

Bye,
Jan

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 04:05:21PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
wrote:
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> >I have a dual Athlon MP 2100+.  If I run three computationally
> >intensive
> >programs, one program runs at 99% CPU usage, and the other two run at
> >50% CPU usage (this is according to top).
> >
> >It used to be that each of the three programs ran at 66% CPU.  I
> >liked
> >it better the old way.
>
> I spent a couple of weeks thinking about this before posting.  And
> then
> right after posting, I realise the difference between these programs
> and
> other programs I run - these programs were written in assembler.
>
> I have also noticed that threaded programs don't thread properly if
> one of
> the threads calls a subroutine that is written in assembler.

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