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<DIV><SPAN class=413515116-16012008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Try
the man pages for the taskset command on Linux 2.6
machine. There are also system calls sched_setaffinity() and
sched_getaffinity()</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=413515116-16012008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Regards, </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=413515116-16012008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Bill.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org
[mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Michael H.
Frese<BR><B>Sent:</B> January 16, 2008 11:33 AM<BR><B>To:</B> "Jeffrey B.
Layton"laytonjb@charter.net<BR><B>Cc:</B>
beowulf@beowulf.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Beowulf] VMC - Virtual Machine
Console<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT size=3>At 08:31 AM 1/16/2008, Jeffrey B.
Layton wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">- With multi-core processors, to
get the best performance you want to<BR> assign a process to a
core.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Excuse my ignorance, please, but can someone tell me how
to do that on Linux (2.6 kernels would be fine)?<BR><BR>The kernel scheduler
-- as opposed to a cluster scheduler -- is a complete black box as far as I
know.<BR><BR>While I am it, where do I find a minimal list of processes
necessary to run a cluster node. I can't see any reason to run the PC
Smart Card demon, pcscd, but I don't know what else I can
pitch.<BR><BR><BR>Mike<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>