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There should not be any problem. The SMP client will release the cores immediatly. I run SMP on P4s, PDs, and C2Ds. At any given time I can start a game, (and forget to shut down client) and don't have any problems. The client slows way down (depending on game and machine) but the game plays fine. ...

Setting affinity doesn't really "link" a process to a CPU-core -- it RESTRICTS the process from running on other CPU-cores. That restriction means that FAH will back off quicker and interfere less with foreground applications. That's assuming the priority setting for the application is th...

NOTE: I did just find some contact information for the dev, so I will be asking my co-worker to help me check with them on Monday.

http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en& ... ty_changer

-jim

Flathead74 wrote: Perhaps a better approach would be for you and your Ukrainian co-worker to write them and ask for clarification?
Have you tried?

Not yet. This program came to my attention yesterday, and I have no off-hours contact information for her. Nor any contact info for the developer in the Ukraine.

-jim

1) I believe this was the forum where I first heard of the product. Hence, the established communication medium. The original site has no way to get in touch with the programs developer. 2) Rilian , the original poster linked directly to a topic on Anandtech where one of my fellow crunchers was curi...

FWIW, the named dev nick4eva openly aligns themself with a group/website by the name of 0day.kiev.ua in their sig. You can see that on the link provided by the OP in this topic at http://distributed.org.ua/forum/index.p ... topic=1149 Innocent fun? I don't know... While the vast majority of virus sc...

Actually, the application IS already open source according to Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/fah-smp-affinity-changer/

Yet the source is not posted. That's a very strange (and totally non-GPL) way of doing things.

-jim