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Re: [SLUG] Specify which processes run on which processor


On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 10:18:13AM +1000, David Kempe wrote:
> Sorry to put a dampner on the whole thing, but does anyone have any more
> ideas on the original problem?

Process affinity things are in the 2.4 kernel; they include interrupt
affinity, slab affinity, etc.

Basically Linux will keep processes (and they VM lines) on the same
processor whenever possible. There is a way to set the processor
you run on (or so I hear), but I don't know it.

Anand