Thank you everyone for the quick responses. :) On 3/24/06, Janne Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure you *really* want this? > > I mean, even if it was possible, are you sure there would be any gains > to it? >
>From what I have read (I'm not an expert on the subject, just curious), cpu affinity is important for performance. Soft affinity attempts to keep processes on the cpu where it's cache is as if the processes are moved a lot, it causes high cache miss rates. In terms of hard affinity, it can make sense for performance in that in some setups, you might want to give a single process or a set of processes the full processing power of a CPU and let the kernel and other programs be run by another CPU. Source: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6799 (An old article on CPU affinity in the 2.5 Linux development kernel.) However, like I said, it was more just out of curiosity. -- em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poster: "I am a Windows Systems Administrator and work for a pretty large corporation...." Anonymous: "I am so very sorry for you..." -- Slashdot
