This computer has 8 CPU threads and 2 GPUs, so the default "full" configuration is CPU:6. For undisclosed reasons, I set it to CPU:5 overnight which was promptly reduced to CPU:4. This morning I reset ...

The new Intel Alder Lake CPUs include P-core and E-cores (performance and efficiency cores) so Intel created Thread Director to manage all of those cores and threads more efficiently than ever before.

All scheduling algorithms except PR will ignore process priorities. All processes have the same priority in FIFO and SJF. There is only one IO device and all IO requests will be served using that ...