26 Aug
1998
26 Aug
'98
7:25 p.m.
I thought you just had to run something in the I386 directory in NT or
something to make it use dual CPUs. i think the program is irrelevant; i've
never heard of dual cpu winNT programs before.
In a message dated 8/26/98 7:50:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
maxeskin(a)hotmail.com writes:
But modern SMP NT boxen can only multiprocess if the
task is
especially adjusted for it. Apparently, NT itself will not take
advantage of the second processor, unless the app (e.g. Photoshop)
has the featuer. Is this always the case, or different in other
systems?
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27 Aug
27 Aug
9:29 a.m.
At 08:25 PM 8/26/98 EDT, SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
I thought you just had to run something in the I386
directory in NT or
something to make it use dual CPUs. i think the program is irrelevant; i've
never heard of dual cpu winNT programs before.
It's called "uptomp.exe". More than one processor under WinNT makes it
almost tolerable. There are plenty of horsepower-hungry multithreaded
apps out there. Just letting the OS delegate tasks to each CPU makes
a big difference.
(This does not explain, however, why it takes my dual PPro, 200 Mhz,
163 meg RAM, SCSI system about ten seconds to start Java, though.)
- John
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