I think what you want is CPU Affinity Take a look at this artical in linux Journal written by Robert Love http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6799
fedora-tester wrote:
Does anyone know if it is possible to limit user's application from running on a particular cpu on an smp system? I have searched the web but all I get is references to ulimit but man ulimit doesn't say anything about specific cpu identification.