[Gllug] Why do jobs migrate between cores?

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Sun Jan 27 19:32:29 UTC 2008


John Winters wrote:
> 2) Why would a job move from one core to another when there's sod all 
> else going on?

There's always something else going on.  Even if there's nothing in 
userland the itself kernel still has many threads running.  If you want 
to, you can set a process' affinity so a particular process will always 
and only run on the designated core.


-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug




More information about the GLLUG mailing list