[osg-users] SingleThreaded leading to whole application just running on one core

[Sebastian Messerschmidt]

Hi,

Wow, before this escalates: OSG is setting the affinity for some of its 
own threads, which is totally legitimate.And I totally agree, that it 
would be nice to have an interface to control the core/wether affinity 
is used in single-threaded mode except from having to subclass the viewer.

If all other threads are forced to one core (as reported), by setting 
the affinity of the osg-threads, it is clearly a bug and needs further 
inspection . I've been working with OSG in a multi-threading environment 
for several years and didn't experience problems so far however.
So creating a minimal example might help to find the problem, if there 
is one.

Cheers
Sebastian
>> Affinity is set by default because the it will provide the best
>> performance for majority of OSG applications. This might be a
>> "terrible" reason for you, but the OSG development is motivated not by
>> just focusing on one class of users needs or preferences, default
>> settings we try to do the best for most OSG applications.
> I have no particular desire to repeat the last discussion, but i'll say it again.
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> Hardcoding CPU affinity is:
> a) unexpected
> b) a premature optimisation
> c) not consistent across platforms
> d) not easily reversible
> e) a performance killer outside of one specific application model.
> f) conflicting with other libraries that expect to set CPU affinity linked in the application
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> It is a terrible idea, and doing it in the context of a library is just plain wrong.
>
> PS. Reason f) doesn't really exist because other libraries don't do this, for reasons a,b,c,d and e.
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