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How to limit a process to a single CPU core?
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How do you limit a single process program run in a Windows environment to run only on a single CPU on a multi-core machine? Is it the same between a windowed program and a command line program? UPDATE: Reason for doing this: benchmarking various programming languages aspects I need something that w…
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If you're running Windows Vista/7 (possibly XP, but not sure) it's really rather simple. You have to be an administrator to get this to work. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to get open Task Manager. Click on the Processes tab. Find the process that needs …
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