Restricting CFEngine to one CPU core using Systemd
In some performance critical situations, it makes sense to limit management software to a single CPU (core). We can do this using systemd and cgroups. CFEngine already provides systemd units on relevant platforms, we just need to tweak them. I’m using CFEngine Enterprise 3.12 on CentOS 7, but the steps should be very similar on other platforms/versions. This post is based on an excellent article from Red Hat: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1445073 Using ps to check what CPU core is utilized Listing all processes and their core We can use ps to check CPU core for desired processes:
August 29, 2018
