I've seen situations where it has been useful to dedicate a core to a backup process so the nightly backup would complete, on a busy linux machine, with a "cpuset".
If this isn't a planned feature in the near future it's not bothering me. I'm very happy with what OpenBSD does for me. On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:55:51AM +0100, Gregor Best wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 07:56:22PM +1000, David Diggles wrote: > > Then if the scheduler always knows what's best, the backup process will be > > completely uninhibited, on a system maxed out on all cores. > > [...] > > What backup process? And why will it be uninhibited? If the system's > maxed out, all processes will neccessarily suffer. > > -- > Gregor Best