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To: Mike Milde who wrote (15780)4/26/1999 7:51:00 PM
From: Stormweaver  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
>> A single thread can only use a single CPU, regardless of
>> the hardware/OS you choose

Solaris supports a two-tier thread model that allows a kernel thread to move to any available processor. Threads have cache affinity and therefore tend to run on the processor they were started on.

I guess my point is that to take advantage of these big boxes you need to re-architect your application at some point anyways. Therefore scalability beyond an 8-CPU framework is difficult to do in a platform independant manner.
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