On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
> Also remember that in even well developed OS's like FreeBSD, all a
> process's threads will execute only on one CPU.
I doubt that - it certainly isn't the case on Linux and Solaris.
A thread may *start* execution on the same CPU as it's parent, but
native threads are not likely to be constrained to a specific CPU
with an SMP OS.
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Steve Wampler <swampler(at)noao(dot)edu>
National Solar Observatory