CPU Affinity

Never let it be said that an old hand can't learn something new! I have known about CPU affinity and always assumed that it was a programming trick. However last night I was discussing this with bluemoon (who continued to research on the web) and it turns out that I was wrong. There are utilities capable to fixing a process to a single CPU. The binaries were originally in a package called schedutils and have since become a part of the util-linux.

After we got his game servers working on a single CPU, bluemoon kindly wrote it up on linux-noob!