On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 13:26 -0500, Adam Grossman wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 18:17 +0000, Simon Billis wrote: > > Adam Grossman sent a missive on 2010-02-17: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > i am running CentOS 5.4. i have a requirement where i need to have 1 > > > application have a single processor all to its self, and the rest of the > > > system run on the other processors. "taskman" lets me bind the process > > > to a processor(s), but it does not make it exclusive. Is this possible > > > to do? i have even tried mucking around with the rc.sysinit, but to no > > > avail. > > > > > > thank you very much, > > Have you considered running through the pids of the all tasks and then using > > taskset to change their affinities. You could also change all the init > > scripts to invoke the process using something like "taskset -p [mask] [pid]" > > and limit the mask to only the first few CPU's that you want them to have > > access to. > > > > that's probably a good idea. have it be the last service that runs > which moves everything to the processors i want. i am going to give > that an try. i was asked to do this for increased performance. but does centos have any SMP load balancing which would probably work better then manually doing load balancing? thanks, -=- adam grossman