Fwd: taskset on amd64

[Levi Bard <taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com>]

On 11/23/05, Ron Owens <gron.owens@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get a process to run on the second CPU.
>
>  I do :
>
>  taskset -p 0x00000002 2170
>
>  but it returns:
>
>  pid 2170's current affinity mask: 3
>  pid 2170's new affinity mask: 3
>
>  i.e. it doesn't change its affinity...
>
>  Is this a bug or is there another way to handle processor affinity?

>From the taskset manpage:

PERMISSIONS
       A  user  must possess CAP_SYS_NICE to change the CPU affinity
of a process.  Any user can retrieve the affinity mask.

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