[CentOS] how to assign program to run on dedicate CPU ?

Thu Jul 21 18:29:52 UTC 2011
Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane <todd.denniston at navy.mil>

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> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of mcclnx mcc
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 14:19
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> Subject: [CentOS] how to assign program to run on dedicate CPU ?
> 
> We have CENTOS 5.X on DELL servers.  I know on Windows environment I
> can use "imagecfg.exe" to assign program run on dedicate CPU.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to do this on LINUX?
> 

I should probably have just answered `man taskset`, but the below got
typed too quickly.

CONTROLEDPID=`ps aux |grep 'name of process I want to control`
PROCESSORTORUNON=3
Taskset -p -c $PROCESSORTORUNON $ PROCESSORTORUNON