On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 06:49:41PM +0100, zvrba@globalnet.hr wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:27:18AM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
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> > I think its easy enough to just ignore the environment variable that
> > sets it.
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> I apologize for the possibly stupid question, but from my reading of
> the pthread manual page about PTHREAD_CONCURRENCY ("The number of concurrent
> threads to be run.") and the corresponding system call, I get the impression
> that restricting it to 1 wouldn't utilize multiple CPUs. E.g. if I had an
> application with 2 parallely executable threads and a machine with 2 CPUs,
> those two threads would be alternatively scheduled, but never running really
> in parallel.
> 
> Is my interpretation of manual pages correct, or is there some "catch" ?

Your interpretation is correct.

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