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Subject: Re: A "mystery" with dual core

Author: Robert Hollay

Date: 09:37:33 11/02/05

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On November 02, 2005 at 10:57:35, Gregory Owett wrote:


>(Native engines, as F8, J9, H9, CT15 etc...use 99% too.)
>
>Peter Kasinski thinks that Windows task manager is confused and carryforwards
>incorrectly.
>
>Is there another explanation?
>
>Gregory

Couldn't it be the so called "ping-pong effect", where processes are
bouncing between multiple processors (or dual core in this case)?
If so, then the program uses both processors, but the overall performance
will be worse than with only one processor.

Robert



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