[olug] Dual Athlon MP info

[Daniel Pfile]

Is cpu affinity really a huge issue these days? I've heard modern  
schedulers do a fine job with keeping the cpus busy and efficient and  
often affinity can do more harm than good.

-- Daniel

On Jun 4, 2005, at 1:00 AM, Phil Brutsche wrote:

> Charles Bird wrote:
>
>> Very good points Phil, thanks.
>>
>> I have been looking into the applications that I plan on running,
>> verlihub for DC I have been told offers no multithreading so only one
>> cpu can run it, but I have been told that mysql, apache, etc can all
>> run on the other cpu so if I somehow get like 8000+ connections
>> coming in that vhub wont bog down the other processes...so my
>> question is : can I define which cpu is running what?
>>
>
> Google for "linux process cpu affinity" and check out the manpage for
> taskset(1).  I had to install the package "schedutils" on my Debian  
> box
> to get it.
>
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>
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
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