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Linux taskset Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)

In this tutorial, we will discuss a utility - dubbed taskset - that lets you achieve processor affinity. It's a feature that allows you to bind or unbind processes to a particular central processing unit, or a range of CPUs. Yes, you can tell the system which CPU core(s) should be used to run a particular process. For theoretical details on why processor affinity exists, head here.

Here, in this tutorial, we will discuss a utility - dubbed taskset - that lets you achieve processor affinity. But before we do that, it's worth mentioning that all examples in this tutorial have been tested on an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS machine and on Debian 11.



Linux taskset Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)