On 8/28/07, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some weeks ago, there was a thread mentioning taskset, then part of > schedutils. Someone mentioned that schedutils was being merged into > util-linux, but the then-current util-linux versions (thru 2.12.x) in the > tree didn't have it. > > Well, util-linux-2.13, which includes schedutils, is now in the tree and > unmasked at least to ~arch. Since schedutils is now included, schedutils > and >=util-linux-2.13-pre block each other, so those who have schedutils > merged will need to unmerge it to upgrade to util-linux-2.13. > > The good news is that with the upgrade, it's now part of a standard util- > linux installation, and therefore part of a standard Linux installation. > So those with multi-CPU/core machines wishing to control which cpu/core > various tasks can run on (among other things schedutils made possible), > now have the taskset utility available by default. =8^) > > Naturally, those running stable have a bit to wait for the new version to > stabilize, unless they want to run ~arch for that package, of course. > Meanwhile, the schedutils package is still around, should they want to > use it with the older/stable util-linux.
I often have long running cpu-intensive tasks running on my dual core machines. Will maintaining cpu / core affinity result in noticeably better performance? Or was that answered in the previous thread you referenced that I missed =) Wil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
