Music Player - How to allocate a single processor?

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2 hours ago, One and a half said:

If a PC has two (Xeon) processors running Win10 or Win2016/2019, is it possible to:

 

a) Have one CPU to take care of the OS, file management and so on

b) Have the other CPU only process music player software

 

Each CPU has multiple processors, that's fine, but how to separate processes from one physical process. The thinking here is to reduce the overheads, and not be interrupted with mice, keyboard or other distractions.

 

As an example, dbpoweramp has a selection of which CPUs to choose when converting say WAV to FLAC and leave a couple CPU alone to manage the OS. The more CPUs are chosen, the quicker the job is completed, 'many hands make light work'.

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2 hours ago, One and a half said:

@bobflood, that's what I'm after something like this screen, top stuff

 

Have fun with it. There are a lot of ways to customize a whole lot of things other than just core affinity. He also has another companion program called Park Control to prevent core parking.

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29 minutes ago, One and a half said:

Great read thank you,  am intending to use slightly older Xeon, the poor efficiency types. Yes, looking at the two sets of RAM, each feeds its own CPU, which is OK,  how it should be anyway, makes sense.

The Park Control program can override any reductions on cores. Very easy to setup and use.