Start a process on a specific core/CPU? [closed]

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Is there a way to specify that an application run on a specific core on linux? Like for example:

firefox core0

Or something that’d function that way conceptually?

Answer

Make use of taskset from util-linux

cpuset also seems to be working. I’m not too familiar with it though. cpuset