[WBEL-users] Process CPU Binding
Lem Tomas
lctomas at alliedbank.com.ph
Thu Aug 4 23:02:20 CDT 2005
Adam Dixon wrote:
> This is probably not a WBEL question, however I am running WBEL on a
> number of servers that run a process of heavy cpu use, where I am told
> that binding it to a particular cpu may provide a performance increase
> due to being no delay in deciding which cpu to process on during it
> running.
>
> So is it possible to bind a process to a particular CPU on an SMP dual
> cpu system (x86). Say lock the process id to cpu0 and then another
> process id to cpu1.
>
> Anyone who can provide information on if this is possible.
>
> Adam
fwiw, found this on tldp.org, circa 2002 though, not sure if its still
relevant
checkout #9 Does Linux SMP support processor affinity?
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMP-HOWTO-3.html
---lem
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