Music Player - How to allocate a single processor?

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

 

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3 hours ago, yamamoto2002 said:

 

Upon setting process affinity to music player app, It is better to check your motherboard manual which CPU is connected to the sound device, to prevent unnecessary inter-process traffic on quick path interconnect or ultra path interconnect ... to ease your mind 😀

 

Here is an example of the motherboard I use :

 

BTW On Windows running on NUMA system, when the process running on CPU2 requests memory, OS allocates the physical memory of the DRAM connected to CPU2. This info may ease your mind further

 

But ... I read somewhere, newer CPUs have power saving feature, something like it lowers the clock of the several cores to the deep sleep state and keep the few other cores clock rather normal, and OS does not assign tasks to deep sleep state core because the waking up deep sleep core takes some power. Manually setting process affinity disturb this functionality and overall system efficiency may be decreased

 

 

 

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.