Threads and Cores
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 4:05 am
When a process spawns a thread, is that thread locked to the core that spawned the thread, or is the OS able to spread the load of the threads to different cores?
I used Process Explorer by Mark Russinovich, it shows the CPU usage by core, but it's hard to determine what exactly is happening when a new thread is spawned. This is really just for personal knowledge, but one of the reasons I asked is that CPU 5 (Core 2) seems to never show any activity, at least when I monitor it!
Rich

I used Process Explorer by Mark Russinovich, it shows the CPU usage by core, but it's hard to determine what exactly is happening when a new thread is spawned. This is really just for personal knowledge, but one of the reasons I asked is that CPU 5 (Core 2) seems to never show any activity, at least when I monitor it!
Rich
