Re: AMD64 X2 questions
* Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> [2007-08-23 11:45:11 -0400]:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:08:49PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > I have an AMD64 dual-core cpu running debian-amd64. Now I have heard, that it
> > might be possible, to run applications on different cpus. One app is running
> > on cpu1 , the other on cpu2 at the same time. Or just using only one of the
> > two cpu-cores. Is that right ???
> >
> > (I know, that in M$-Windows this is possible.)
> >
> > I always thought, the kernel is scheduling the processes without the
> > possibility to change this by users. If I am wrong, how can I manage it ?
>
> I imagine it is possible to lock a task to a specific CPU although
> unless you are running some server with a very specialized task, you
> probably don't have any good reason to. The scheduler does a great job
> in general at trying to run all your programs as quickly as possible.
"man -k affinity" shows a list of related options and commands.
It looks like taskset is what you want.
Haven't tried it myself.
Chris
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