Windows Task Manager

(i got the AlienGUIse desktop suite for a change of "scenery" and it thas the little window dock that gives info on CPU usage and RAM usage and thats wut brought this to my attention...) i noticed when i go into Windows Task Manager and then the Processes tab, in the CPU Usage column, that "System Idle Process" is constantly taking up about 80-90% of the CPU, now i have dual processors, so does it just mean that one processor is in idle while the other one is being used?? (i thought the whole point of dual processors was that both of them are sharing the work to let u work and such), (also, when i go into System in the Control Panel, it sometimes says that there is one gig and then sometimes it says two ...)

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They don't share the work of running one program, unless that program is specifically designed to make use of two procesors.

How it works is by an affinity to run in either proc0 or proc1. An executable will run on either proc0 or proc1. You can manually select which one, by setting it's affinity, or let the system decide.

So, program1 runs on proc0, program2 runs on proc1. It allows you to run more and take less of a hit, but having two procs doesn't speed up the execution of any one discreet executable.

I wished I had known this too 7+ yrs ago. I might have saved money not buying a dual proc mobo for my linux server.

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