Limiting processor usage

Deadline
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Hello,

I was wondering If there is a way to limit the amount of CPU’s used on specific slaves, or if it could at least be assign on a per job basis. We tried setting affinity on the computer’s task manager but as soon as it picks up a new task the affinity goes back to normal.

Any ideas?

Thanks

P.S. we are using Maya 2011 and Nuke 6.1

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Would limiting the number of threads used for rendering be a solution? I believe both Maya (dependeing on the renderer) and Nuke support this. If you are rendering on 4 core machines, and limit the thread count to 2, theoretically that should leave the other 2 cores open.

Cheers,

  • Ryan