On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 02:02:22PM -0500, David Phillips wrote:
> Sreekumar Kodakara writes:
> > both "program"  and "gzip" run on the same processor. Since both are
> > CPU intensive, each take 50% of the processor time. The other
> > processor is idle. Is there a way to make "program" run on one
> > processor and "gzip" on the other?
> 
> They should do that already.  It could be a kernel bug.  Upgrade to a later
> kernel version.

Isn't this the generally recommended approach for piped processes? Since,
(a) the odds are good they'll run in sequence instead of parallel, and (b)
it would improve the chances of sharing any memory cache.

Just wondering.

-Steve


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