Re: assign mgmt process to one core of dual core



Why would you want to prevent the system from using ALL the CPU it has available to run user applications?

craig wrote:
objective: within XPProSP2 be able to assign mcafee, and other "mgmt" agents to one core, and make that core offlimits to everything else. from experience- opening a file, installing a SP... it is the anti-virus/spyware that burns CPUs. launching an email attachment is similar- Lotus, Adobe and the A/V are all competing for cycles. for an example- can this be set in XP somewhere that mcshield.exe is a foreground process on Proc1, and cannot use Proc0?

I know that a programmer can use the SetProcessAffinity... but that is beyond the scope of my time!

my users would be tickled to death to have the full power of a Pent4 2.8 and not feel the impact of mcshield, twigcp, etc

thanks

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