Re: [LAU] dualcore and audio software

Hi,

On Friday 01 May 2009 19:38:53 Atte André Jensen wrote:
> Arnold Krille wrote:
> > Both use threads to split their work, again there is no reason they have
> > all their threads running on the same core. In fact one of the reasons to
> > use threads is to make use of multiple cores within one app.
> But doubling the load (for instance by adding more voices to ams) makes
> *both* threads rise by (about) 100%. Wouldn't you expect for instance
> gui threads to stay the same.

I looked at your screenshot. As I am not familiar with your [ah]top, only with
plain old top: 1) It reports different TIME+ values for the different threads.
So they are basically not doing the same which is a good thing but maybe 2)
your top has a problem with CPU% with multiple threads and reports the apps
total for each thread...

> Other cpu heavy processes seem to use only
> one core, for instance building stuff from source. Also...

Here building stuff from source uses 10 of 8 cores. "-j X" is your friend and
rule of thumb says that X should be number_of_cores+1 to keep your room warm.

Have fun,

Arnold

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