assign mgmt process to one core of dual core

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objective: within XPProSP2 be able to assign mcafee, and other "mgmt" agents
to one core, and make that core offlimits to everything else. from
experience- opening a file, installing a SP... it is the anti-virus/spyware
that burns CPUs. launching an email attachment is similar- Lotus, Adobe and
the A/V are all competing for cycles. for an example- can this be set in XP
somewhere that mcshield.exe is a foreground process on Proc1, and cannot use
Proc0?

I know that a programmer can use the SetProcessAffinity... but that is
beyond the scope of my time!

my users would be tickled to death to have the full power of a Pent4 2.8
and not feel the impact of mcshield, twigcp, etc

thanks
 
Why would you want to prevent the system from using ALL the CPU it has
available to run user applications?
 
so... you trust the scheduler? no contentions, no spinlock, no annoyances?
I suppose, in a perfect world that would be OK. Do you have experience with
the Dualcore? I am sure you have seen a/v programs eat up CPU and grossly
slow down an SP install. I am sure it hampers loading Acrobat, word, etc.

same singleprocessor machine moves much faster with a/v "on access"
disabled. but we cannot live like that. (back to the perfect world- ie: no
creeps)

thanks
 
I think, until one has enough experience with dualcore, leaving the
system to manage will give you less headache.
 
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