Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:20:58 11/22/04
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On November 22, 2004 at 16:45:44, Ray Banks wrote: >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) I use ponder-on all the time, one cpu or not... If both engines ponder, each gets 1/2 the processor, and that doesn't disrupt normal time allocation...
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