Hm,

that thought about hyperthreading in P4s is touching on a thought I had. The
P4 laptop I have tried running units on (2.8GHz, 1GByte 266MHz RAM) seems
rather disappointing relative to a 1.2GHz P3 laptop I've used. I was
wondering whether running 2 clients in parallel (i.e. 2 separate caches)
would produce a < 2x processing time per unit. Anyone tried this? I'm
reluctant to embark on this as the max. daytime temperature here is Southern
England is well into the 30s Celsius at present.

"Michael D. Ober" <obermd-@-alum-mit-edu-nospam> wrote in message
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On multiprocessor machines (not sure if hyperthreading counts in this

case),

you can run all but one of the CPUs at "realtime" and still keep control

of

the system.

Mike Ober.

"Bill Barto" <noaddress@toomuchspam> wrote in message
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"H" is pretty easy to answer, the rest would take awhile.

 All you have to do is put the client on high priority and you would

find

out it wasn't a good idea. The only way to get back control would be to

do

a

hard power down and then boot back up into safe mode (if you had the

client

set to automatically start with windows). Low priority is all you want

to

run it at. Anything higher will severely effect the usage of your

computer.