On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Galen wrote:

> I'm not 100% sure what you're talking about, to be honest. I think I'm 
> in the second half of the people... :)
> 
> As far as I can tell, Apache runs as many processes (httpd) as needed 
> on my local machine. As far as my server, I haven't seen this behavior, 
> but I admit I don't sit there watching top all the time unless 
> something is broken, and even then, I usually can't fix whatever is 
> broken. I don't have root or other special access to the server - it's 
> a shared machine, pretty lightly loaded most of the time. I do have SSH 
> access.

Processor affinity isn't nearly as complex as threading; it means to set
up a system whereby certain processes run on a particular processor set;
e.g., all httpd processes run on CPU set 1, all image processing tasks run
on CPU set 2.  That way CPU set 1 can continue servicing httpd requests
without being bogged down by the CPU intensive tasks running on CPU set 2.

If pset is available as a command on your multiple CPU machine then you 
can probably set up processor affinity.

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