On 23 August 2013 12:36, Dave Love <d.l...@liverpool.ac.uk> wrote: > John Hearns <hear...@googlemail.com> writes: > > > > cpuset' of one or two cores and let your jobs run on the rest of the > cores. > > Maybe, if you make sure the resource manager knows about it, and users > don't mind losing the cores,
Depends how big your machine is. Having a few cores devoteds to OS processes on a big NUMA machine is not a great loss of resources. And of course the resource manager knows about it.