Does anyone happen to know how to set an application to run specifically on one processor core? I know XP/Vista/7 has this feature in the task manager, and I was curious if OS X has a simular feature. I figure it would be useful to set a processor-intesive task to one core (like video encoding) and keep the other one free for general computing. Any ideas?
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Set Processor Affinity in OS X
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twelve
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I've been running multi-core processors for the past 4 years and never known that. How do you do it?
Bill
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In task manager, you right click on a process (not a task) and select Set Affinity. You can then uncheck whatever core you like. This also works for Pentium 4 HT processors.
EDIT: I think affinity can only be set on OS X by the application itself, not by a user.
Another EDIT: If you want to go to the process of a specific task without having to scroll through the whole thing, just right click on the task and select Go to Process.
EDIT: I think affinity can only be set on OS X by the application itself, not by a user.
Another EDIT: If you want to go to the process of a specific task without having to scroll through the whole thing, just right click on the task and select Go to Process.