Affinity

  • Thread starter Thread starter troy marrs
  • Start date Start date
T

troy marrs

Is this a usefull option. It can be found in task manager. It appears to
allow to let yoiu assign certain tasks to one the the processors in the dual
core processor. I have an athlon live 64 c2 4200+ am2 socket. How should I
use it to the most benefit if it is worth using?
 
troy marrs said:
Is this a usefull option. It can be found in task manager. It appears to
allow to let yoiu assign certain tasks to one the the processors in the
dual core processor. I have an athlon live 64 c2 4200+ am2 socket. How
should I use it to the most benefit if it is worth using?
Click to expand...

You should leave it alone. For general use the computer is far better at
deciding how to spend its resources than we are.
 
Bytesback said:
Ye Gods !!! With this attitude we wont learn anything !

Just as an example, If I have downloaded a huge RAR file, and I want to
unpack it but still use the computer ( Normally it tie up all the
resources until its fininshed ) I would set affinty to one of the
processors and allow the other one to carry on with everything else.
Click to expand...

How do you go about doing this?
Do you set affinity for every process to one cpu first?
Do you leave it that way? Or do you then set every process back to dual
affinity?
Seems like a lot of keystrokes/clicking.
 
Ye Gods !!! With this attitude we wont learn anything !
Click to expand...

I've learnt plenty, thanks.
Just as an example, If I have downloaded a huge RAR file, and I want to
unpack it but still use the computer ( Normally it tie up all the
resources until its fininshed ) I would set affinty to one of the
processors and allow the other one to carry on with everything else.
Click to expand...

Fair point. I myself would change the process priority to 'below normal', so
it runs as more of a background task, thus enabling it to use all the
resources it wants to, provided I am not using them myself. This would
enable it to take advantage of either core should it find spare resources to
do so, and also allow it to duck out of the way a bit if my normal use is
using a lot of processor time.

I wouldn't like to say if my solution is 'better' or 'worse' than yours, but
it's an interesting thought isn't it?
 
Robert's way would be the best as winrar can use both cores which will get
the work done faster while remaining responsive (priority change). I
wouldn't encourage users to go around and start playing with advanced
settings that can either degrade their performance (this case) or make them
think they are more knowledgeable than they are. I can see the person's
next post be, "Help I browsed around in the registry and deleted some
entries and now the XXXX doesn't work".

If you don't know what the red button does, don't push it. When you know
what the red button does, you don't push it still unless instructed to.
 
Back
Top