On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:46 PM, David Boreham <david_l...@boreham.org>wrote: > > > Hmm...typically multi-core scaling issues are in the area of memory > contention and cache coherence (and therefore are for the most part not > dependent on the OS and its scheduler).
If it is independent of the OS, then how does one go about tuning it. Consider this - I get a 12 core server on which I want multiple webserver instances + DB. Can one create CPU pools (say core 1,2,3 for webservers, 4,5,6,7 for DB, etc.) ? I know about taskset, but should one be using it ?