This question comes from Ulysses on an interesting thread from the Mechanical Sympathy news group, especially given how multiple processors are now the norm: Ulysses: On an 8xCPU Linux instance, is it at all advantageous to use the Linux taskset command to pin an 8xJVM process set (co-ordinated as a www.infinispan.org distributed cache/data grid) to a specific CPU affinity set (i.e. pin JVM0 pro
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