Hi all,

I have a dual processor Asus server containing two Xeon 3.0 GHz CPUs. Well, the problem is I don't know if the OS is using both CPUs to perform task distribution. I mean how can I determine if a specific task is running on a specific CPU. For example task list only shows process IDs, but not the processor on which a specific process is running. I used cpuinfo file, but it only asserts that I have two CPUs.

Is there any solution through which I can force a specific task to run on a specific CPU? I mean if I have a time consuming task, I prefer to run it on one of my CPUs and do the rest through the other one.

Regards,
Shahram Roohani

I don't know of an existing utility to do this, and a (very) quick google didn't turn up anything either, but if you're C savvy you can write one:

$ man sched_setaffinity

how the kernel schedules dual cpu is rather complex
if you are using a 2.6.x series kernel cpu sceduling is quite good
if you are using 2.4.x kernel cpu scheduling is terrible and you should upgrade your kernel
generally each cpu has it's own task cue and each task has an afinity for only one cpu.
this is so each task has access to its cpu memory caches (pipes) otherwise if tasks switched between cpus
it would create a situation of memory duplication and cause terrible thrashing of the cpu cache as tasks were resumed. Of course this is just a general picture. Basically if you are running a modern kernel just don't worry about it cause it is being done quite eficiently.

if you wish to play with sceduling read this (might be fun)
http://kerneltrap.org/node/3366?PHPS...fa895960901a09