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RE: Force app to use single CPU

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I'm pretty sure that it's not paging memory. The machine has 2GB of RAM
and I don't see any indications of paging.

-- Blake

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Greg Lindahl wrote:

> > I have an imaging app (uses ~500MB of memory) running on my DP264
> > (Linux 2.2.10) that seems to spend a lot of time context switching between
> > the processors (judging from xosview).
>
> The linux scheduler is supposed to keep processes in the same CPU if
> possible. I would suspect that it would switch back and forth mostly if it
> were paging. You can modify your kernel to have a bigger
> PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY...
>
> The file in question is linux/kernel/sched.c, the function is "goodness()".
>
> -- g
>
>

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