Re: Binding a process to a processor

Thomas Ray wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> We have an RS6000 J40 with 2 CPUs running AIX 4.2 and Oracle 8.0. Our
> batch processes seem to be contending with the onlines for cpu and we're
> struggling to meet batch deadlines. So, we've decided to go with another
> dual cpu card in order to relieve the bottleneck. My question is.... Is it
> possible, through AIX, to bind the online Oracle processes to one set of
> cpus and batch to the other? (This way, online can only take up to 50% of
> the total cpu.) Is there a better way? --

You can bind an individual process (and all its threads) to one processor with:

        bindprocessor cpu# PID

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Kevin Gee
Kernel/LVM/File system/Boot/HACMP Support - AIX Support (IBM)
Graduate Student - The University of Texas at Arlington
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