What Does Taskset Do in Linux?
Contents the Taskset Command Is Used to Set or Retrieve the Cpu Affinity of a Running Process Given Its Pid, or to Launch a New Command with a Given Cpu...
The taskset command is used to set or retrieve the CPU affinity of a running process given its pid, or to launch a new command with a given CPU affinity. CPU affinity is a scheduler property that “bonds” a process to a given set of CPUs on the system.
How to use taskset command?
With the help of the “taskset” command tool, the user can fetch or set the CPU affinity of a particular process with its given process id (PID).
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Taskset Commands Options:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| -a, –all | Used to set the CPU affinity of all tasks for the given PID |
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