load handiling with a dual athlon mp machine

hello all I'm about about to build a dual athlon mp machine with a tyan thunder k7x motherboard and I was wondering during normal cpu operations and heavy operations how is the load on each cpu distributed. Is it just distrubted evenly among the two cpus or is it directed to just one until it can't handle any more effeciently and then direted towars the other one

It's pretty evenly distributed. Keep in mind, though, if a process isn't designed for SMP, it will only use one processor.

If you have 20 processes going, it will try to distribute the processes evenly, so that each CPU has a 50% load. It may not assign exactly 10 processes to each CPU, but both CPU's will have as close to the same load as possible.


-CPFitz-

Caffinehog said:

It's pretty evenly distributed. Keep in mind, though, if a process isn't designed for SMP, it will only use one processor.

Click to expand...

Very true, but keep in mind that if the prog wont use both, the OS will take 2 seperate progs and put one to each. Basiclly the OS will try to keep it even throughout the programs. Just the single program wont be used by both unless it is designed to.

thanks for the info