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In article <67411@aerospace.AERO.ORG> carl@altair.UUCP (Carl Kesselman) writes:
>No, no no. The responses being sent are wrong.  How about RTFM.  There
>is a facility called tmp_affinity.  You can use this to ensure that a
>process runs on a specific processor.

Yes, but that is not much help to the person who posed the initial
question. They were looking for a way to *exclusively* dedicate a
processor (or bunch of processors) to a particular process. The
tmp_affinity() system call does not provide this facility. It can bind
a process to a particular processor, but does not prevent another
process from also being bound to that processor or for the processor to
be given over to interrupt servicing and related kernel processing. If
the processor had to switch from the process that was being timed, the
benchmark results would be inconsistent and possibly non-reproducible.

I understand that Encore provide this capability on their boxes, so maybe
DYNIX will get it some day.

		Jim