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Mark,
To directly answer your question, on Win2k, you can use perfmon.exe or
taskmgr.exe to chart both CPU's utilization. However, please read on...
I have had nothing but trouble with dual-processor machines on Windows.
I formerly used Tradestation6 on a dual pentium III 750MHz system with
Win2k. It crashed weekly. I tried upgrading to WinXP but Tradestation6
didn't work on XP.
In the end, I re-purposed that very same dual-750 system to be a Linux
server. It has never crashed, with current uptime of 48 days.
To run Tradestation6, I built a new single-CPU Athlon XP1600 server.
Total cost for Asus mainboard with AMD CPU and 512MB RAM was under $400.
Very stable on Win2k.
My theory: Unlike Unix programmers, Windows operating-system and
application programmers are inexperienced writing multi-threaded code for
multi-cpu systems because very few true multi-cpu Windows systems even
exist. Having spent much time writing multi-threaded code, I can tell you
that it gets considerably harder to do properly when there really *are*
multiple-cpu's running the multiple threads.
So, my bottom line recommendation is that multi-cpu machines should only
be used for Unix. And, for the fastest performance with Windows, get the
fastest single-cpu system you can afford.
Regards,
Peter Nelson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Krisburg" <krisburg@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:56 PM
Subject: dual processor CPU's and TS 6.0
Has anyone got empiric information on improvement in performance with
dual processors? For example, Norton Utilities has a CPU Utilization %
that is useful with single processors, but do not know if anything
similar is available with dual processors to see what % of available CPU
processor capacity the program uses on dual systems, vs single processor
systems.
Mark
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