Processor scheduling is the allocation of a computer's processor power to specific tasks. The practice uses the term "scheduling" because it assigns a specific percentage of time the processor is ...

Managing the CPU time assigned to threads on a computer can lead to better management by using Terminal commands to prioritize processes on the fly. One of the most common and biggest trade-offs to ...

As with many Unix and Linux systems, you can change the priority of processes in OS X to advance them through the CPU. While this will not make them faster, it can be used to make processes more ...

One would expect that doubling the processing power available to an application would double the application performance or cut the run time in half. Unfortunately, HPC users know this is far from ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...