The ability in Linux to bind one or more processes to one or more processors, called CPU affinity, is a long-requested feature. The idea is to say “always run this process on processor one” or “run ...

Changing the processor affinity for programs in Windows lets you free up CPU resources being used by lighter processes, so that they can be allocated to more important and intensive programs. Changing ...

It appears as though a program I use has issues running on pc's with hyperthreading capable CPU's. The workaround for this is to set processor affinity through task manager to a single cpu instead of ...