Author: Ray Banks
Date: 13:45:44 11/22/04
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On November 22, 2004 at 16:20:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Some engines will see the second "processor" and use it. That creates an >imbalance. If you do ponder-on which is the only way I run, then there are >further ways for the two programs to interfere with each other. The one that is >the best-behaved in cache will run on a processor that appears to be >significantly faster than the processor for the program that is not so well >behaved... Surely with a single processor machine you'd never use ponder on ? Even with a genuine dual processor box with ponder on, you'd still restrict the likes of Shredder to one CPU (so each engine has one genuine CPU each)
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