Timeline for how many cores should I utilize for calculations? #cores or #cores -1?
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| Aug 22, 2017 at 18:34 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftEng/status/900063721057398784 | ||
| Aug 14, 2017 at 8:31 | history | protected | gnat | ||
| Aug 14, 2017 at 5:00 | comment | added | David Schwartz | In many cases, using #cores+1 makes a lot of sense. If you just use #cores, then any unexpected blocking (such as a page fault) needlessly forces a core to be idle. | |
| Aug 14, 2017 at 0:27 | answer | added | John Forkosh | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 13, 2017 at 17:47 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 13, 2017 at 10:38 | vote | accept | Jas | ||
| Aug 13, 2017 at 10:30 | answer | added | motoDrizzt | timeline score: -4 | |
| Aug 13, 2017 at 8:46 | answer | added | amon | timeline score: 11 | |
| Aug 13, 2017 at 8:46 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 13, 2017 at 8:41 | answer | added | Arseni Mourzenko | timeline score: 28 | |
| Aug 13, 2017 at 8:31 | comment | added | Doc Brown | Utilizing all cores is a good start, and some superstition about the OS behaving better with "-1 cores" is probably just - superstition, but you should actually profile it, how it behaves for your calculation, your hardware, your operating system. | |
| Aug 13, 2017 at 8:27 | history | asked | Jas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |