I was playing battlefield 2 on my new pc with an x2 4200. I had the task manager loaded. When I quit I noticed that it seemed that both processors had been very active ~50% durring my gameplay.
This reminded me of an issue that we had at work with engineering applications with huge memory footprints. There was a performance hit because a given process would swap from one cpu core to the other. This would cause the cache hits to reduce, because the process had a different local cache. There was some command to have the os freeze the process to a single cpu.
Does the same effect apply in windows? Is there a similar workaround?
Thanks
Ross
This reminded me of an issue that we had at work with engineering applications with huge memory footprints. There was a performance hit because a given process would swap from one cpu core to the other. This would cause the cache hits to reduce, because the process had a different local cache. There was some command to have the os freeze the process to a single cpu.
Does the same effect apply in windows? Is there a similar workaround?
Thanks
Ross