On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 15:16:49 +0000 Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 02:22:58PM +0000, Bill Purvis wrote: > >> If there is some cunning >> way to specify an actual number of cores to be used, then the person who >> wrote a program which uses that deserves to get lots of flak from people >> using that program! > >Depends on how it's used. For example, Ardour allows you to >set the number of cores used. The default is 'all but one', >and that makes perfect sense. > >Ciao, Well, this is all very interesting. Using some of these answers as a springboard and then doing searches it seems that you can actually assign a thread to a specific core. If I've understood that correctly you can also ensure that they are also on the same socket, which apparently improves memory access. Not sure what I can do with the information. I shall have to do some more digging... Anyone got a spare JCB :) -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
