[Nottingham] Multi-processor machines

[Mike Cardwell]

Hi,

Currently, I have a single cpu machine running Debian that has a single 
task. Images are sent to it, they are processed in a certain way, and then 
are sent back.

Because the processing can potentially use a lot of memory, a queue is 
created and one image is processed at a time to stop the machine from 
thrashing it's swap.

I am soon going to have access to a machine with dual cpus. It would make 
sense to have both cpus working on separate images simultaneously.

My question is, is it possible with Linux to force processes to run on 
particular CPU's? Or am I missing the point entirely?

I doubt it makes any difference, but the program I'm using is something I 
wrote my self in perl.

Mike