Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!swan!arosen From: arosen@hen.ulowell.edu (MFHorn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent Subject: Re: How to fork and bind on sequent ? Message-ID: Date: 25 Jul 89 15:09:34 GMT References: <8823@pyr.gatech.EDU> <2400058@kailand> Sender: news@swan.ulowell.edu Organization: University of Lowell, CS Dept Lines: 17 In-reply-to: pwolfe@kailand.KAI.COM's message of 24 Jul 89 03:54:00 GMT In article <2400058@kailand> pwolfe@kailand.KAI.COM writes: Check out the TMP_AFFINITY(2) system call. I've never actually used it, but I think it restricts your process to being scheduled on a particular processor, but doesn't prevent that processor from running other processes. It doesn't prevent the processor from running other processes, but affinitied processes are scheduled before non-affinitied processes, so you get an inherent priority over other processes. It make some time for other processes to migrate off you processor, but after that, you should have it pretty much all to yourself. -- Andy Rosen | arosen@swan.ulowell.edu | "I got this guitar and I ULowell, Box #3031 | ulowell!arosen | learned how to make it Lowell, Ma 01854 | | talk" -Thunder Road RD in '88 - The way it should've been