Using Taskset for Priority Tasks

“Unless you’re using a really old machine or cheap netbook,
almost any system you touch with Linux these days is going to be a
multiprocessor system. Any server machine deployed within the past
five years should have at least two CPUs, and most desktops
released in the past three years have at least two cores. For a
number of reasons, you might want to “pin” some tasks so they run
exclusively on a single CPU or set of CPUs.

“Whether you want to ensure resources for a process, ensure that
a process doesn’t hog all system resources or improve a process
that doesn’t scale well to multiple CPUs, you can use taskset to
assign a task to specific CPUs. It’s pretty simple.

“Using taskset, you “bond” a process to a CPU. Let’s say you
want to run Google Chrome on one CPU. You’d run something like
this:”

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