assign mgmt process to one core of dual core

[Guest]

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

 

[Bob I]

Why would you want to prevent the system from using ALL the CPU it has
available to run user applications?

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Bob I]

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