[Orca-users] Re: Orca using multiple CPUs

[Blair Zajac]

That would be cool.  Patches are welcome :)

Blair

Jesse Becker wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I figured that I could fire up multiple instances, but I was hoping
> that there was a way for the main orca.pl script automagically divide the
> various bits of work it needs to do, and fork off a given number of
> processes to handle it.  Maybe I'll try to see what I can do (no promises
> though :-/)
> 
> --- simon.klyne at arcordia.com wrote:
> >
> > I have multiple instances of Orca running on an 8CPU E4000 and can use all
> > the spare CPU cycles of that.
> > I suppose it depends what you are graphing and whether multiple instances
> > with different configurations makes sense.
> > My main reason for multiple instances is the organisation of the display
> > but a side effect is crude multithreading to use more than a single CPU.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > Jesse Becker <jesse_becker at yahoo.com> on 26/10/2001 15:20:35
> >
> > Please respond to orca-discuss at yahoogroups.com
> >
> > To:   orca-discuss at yahoogroups.com
> > cc:
> > Subject:  [orca-discuss] Orca using multiple CPUs
> >
> >
> > To take a slightly different angle on this question, are there any
> > releases
> > of Orca that can be distributed across multiple CPUs?  I've got a 6-way
> > SuperSparc running orca that has one CPU pegged, and the other five
> > idle...
> >
> > Thanks. :)
> >
> > --- paulhar at parthus.com wrote:
> > > I am currently running 0.24, do any of the later releases draw a
> > > graph per
> > > CPU, or state the number of CPUs, for example on a 8 CPU Sun (Solaris)
> > > Enterprise 4500?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Paul

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