processor affinity

Processor affinity is meant to increase system efficiency, overall.

Further, processor affinity becomes more complicated in systems with non-uniform architectures.

Processor affinity can effectively reduce cache problems but it does not curb the persistent load-balancing problem.

The application can be used to set process priorities, processor affinity, forcibly terminating (ending) processes.

Scheduling algorithm implementations vary in adherence to processor affinity.

As other resources are also shared, processor affinity alone cannot be used as the basis for CPU dispatching.

In SMP(symmetric multiprocessing) systems, processor affinity is considered to increase overall system performance, even if it may cause a process itself to run more slowly.

NET CF, the Xbox 360 version allows setting processor affinity to threads created.

Some vendors recommend setting the processor affinity on OpenMP threads to associate them with particular processor cores.

The Task Manager can also be used to set process priorities, processor affinity, forcibly terminate processes, and shut down, restart, hibernate or log off from Windows.

Processor affinity takes advantage of the fact that some remnants of a process may remain in one processor's state (in particular, its cache) from the last time the process ran.

Neutrino supports symmetric multiprocessing and processor affinity, called bound multiprocessing (BMP) in QNX terminology.

Right-clicking a process in the list allows changing the priority the process has, setting processor affinity (setting which CPU(s) the process can execute on), and allows the process to be ended.