JD wrote: > > Thank you Matt! I am glad Linux has kept up with this > area which is becoming more and more important as > cpu's multiply their cores. > Perhaps there will be a refinement that will allow > the setting of core affinity as well. > AMD released the 8-core cpu in 2009 > > http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guru3d.com%2Fnews%2Famd-unleashes-hydra-8-core-cpu-in-2009%2F&ei=DnhhTKCRCZH0swPX4K3NCA&usg=AFQjCNEatbZxHgmbm1a300qyI-TP6Giupw > > 16 core cpu's are on the horizon, if not already in production. > So I hope the affinity code will be refined to allow selecting > a set of cores as well. JD, I'm fairly certain that taskset doesn't distinguish between CPUs and cores. If you have 2 quad-core CPUs, it should already allow you to assign the CPU affinity to any set of the 8 available cores. I think this is just a case of the documentation lagging behind the code. Regards, Matthew Roth InterMedia Marketing Solutions Software Engineer and Systems Developer -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines