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Setting cpu affinity on linux

Here is a simple way to bind a proc to a cpu. The taskset command is part of the util-linux package.

Bind process 2225 to processor 0:

taskset -p -c 0 2225

Bind process 2225 to processor 1:

taskset -p -c 1 2225

Bind process 2225 to processor 0 and 1:

taskset -p -c 0,1 2225

You can also bind a process at execution:

taskset -c 0 sshd

Retrieving the pids current affinity:

[root@localhost ~]# taskset -p 2225
pid 2225’s current affinity mask: 3