[SOLVED] Dedicate a single core to a specific task

dr_insanity · 07-16-2008, 03:21 AM

one of my users has asked if it is possible to dedicate a single core of a quad processor to a specific task, thus ensuring that the task can use the maximum capacity of that core without affecting the rest of the system. Ideally we would like to dedicate 2 of the cores over to CAD as this is a lot more resource hungry than other activities performed on the computers, such as AV, Word Processing and email... extremely light in comparison!

I couldn't find any options myself, perhaps you might know of third party apps which might allow this?

Thanks!

dr_insanity · 07-16-2008, 08:09 AM

Never mind, it's called processor affinity apparently, and searching on that gave me loads of results!

07-16-2008, 03:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
dr_insanity Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 37 OS: XPPro-sp2, 2000-sp4, 2003SBS, Vista Business	[SOLVED] Dedicate a single core to a specific task one of my users has asked if it is possible to dedicate a single core of a quad processor to a specific task, thus ensuring that the task can use the maximum capacity of that core without affecting the rest of the system. Ideally we would like to dedicate 2 of the cores over to CAD as this is a lot more resource hungry than other activities performed on the computers, such as AV, Word Processing and email... extremely light in comparison! I couldn't find any options myself, perhaps you might know of third party apps which might allow this? Thanks! __________________ <!--- My karma ran over your dogma ---!>

07-16-2008, 08:09 AM	#2 (permalink)
dr_insanity Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 37 OS: XPPro-sp2, 2000-sp4, 2003SBS, Vista Business	Re: Dedicate a single core to a specific task Never mind, it's called processor affinity apparently, and searching on that gave me loads of results! __________________ <!--- My karma ran over your dogma ---!>