[COLUG] stress-testing multi-core systems

[Rob Funk]

Scott Merrill wrote:
> Can I restate my original question to seek advice on a single
> executable that will tax all of the available CPU cores in a system?
> Does such a thing exist?

If one exists, it would have to be Linux-specific, since POSIX doesn't 
appear to have a way to specify what CPU to run a process on.

If you want to write/modify a program to do this, check out the Linux 
sched_setaffinity(2) system call.


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