I hear conflicting reports about the multiprocessor setting for Booting (see picture). Some say it does not really speed up the booting process, others claim it gives a 15% advantage. Anybody have any thoughts and/or experience with it?
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Multiprocessor Boot
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Thanks ScottW, I did one reboot in the meantime. It did not seem to be any different than before the setting. The initial desktop setup is always quite fast, but then it takes a while to bring up the sidebar and also Ghost. After that it is still diddling with something that I cannot identify. I have a total of 24 startups.
http://lifehacker.com/396904/m.....e#c6350669
:-)
[edit] In summary, that setting is a hoax, and sadly all these people didn't do their research before writing articles about it. I should write up a list of hoax settings, actually, that would make a good article.
But why is this setting possibility there in the first place. It must serve some purpose. or not? Is that the only purpose (what the Geek posted in the above thread)?
"These settings are meant for troubleshooting and debugging, for instance simulating a low memory system or single processor for performance testing... or for debugging problems with multiple physical CPU boxes - by disabling one of the CPUs you can see if you still have crashing problems, etc."
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