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Assign an individual core to a process

What I'm trying to implement is to run a python script on it's own core on Raspberry Pi 2 with Debian. One can use taskset to bind a process to particular core. But I need this core to be free of OS's ...
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Why do we have CPUs with all the cores at the same speeds and not combinations of different speeds?

In general if you are buying a new computer you would determine which processor to buy by what your expected workload will be. Performance in games tends to be determined by single core speed, whereas ...
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Terminology used for CPU/Processors

Suppose a system has 4 Intel Xeon processors each having 10 physical cores with HyperThreading enabled which makes a total of 80 cores Now it is completely confusing when in documentation they start ...
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Curios: What makes CPUs better than others? [closed]

I have been wondering about this for a long while now and was hoping someone here could answer it pretty easily. If I was looking for the most powerful CPU what should I really be looking at? There ...
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What do "processor" and "cpu cores" mean in /proc/cpuinfo? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Difference Between Cores and Processors What do "processor" and "cpu cores" mean here? cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : ...
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