[AG-TECH] vic w2k and dual cpu

[Bob Olson]

Hmm, interesting data point!

Looks like GetProcessAffinityMask and SetProcessAffinityMask are what are
needed:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/prothred_20mj.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/prothred_63vv.asp

I don't know if there's a mechanism for doing this on an unmodified
program tho.

--bob

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, S.Booth wrote:

> 
> We have a dual cpu display node running windows 2000. 
> With a heavy load I find it MUCH better to use the task manager to set the
> cpu affinity for vic to a single cpu only.
> Tcl applications like vic seem to be unable to multi-thread and Windows
> 2000 seems to keep bouncing the process between cpus which seems to give
> the sticky window problem.
> 
> Does anyone know a way of geting vic to start with a default processor
> affinity.
> 
> 				Stephen 
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