Setting specific processor cores.

[birdman3131]

So I run some ark servers on bare metal. Looking to combine them with a proxmox server I have. But looking into it it seems proxmox does not like giving exclusive access to processor cores?

More specifically what I want to have is a dual E5-2690V4 system. Dedicate one full processor to a windows server machine for ARK and the other processor can be shared between whatever. Then inside of windows I set each ark server to its own pair of cores.

But a brief search seemed like this was not easy on proxmox?

 

[Dunuin]

Keywords to search for are "core pinning", "cpu affinity" and "NUMA".
You will find stuff like this:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/cpu-pinning.67805/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c_451HV6fE

So yes, this is possible but most of the time PVE will do a better job if you let it hypervise and dynamically manage its ressources.

 

[birdman3131]

Keywords to search for a "core pinning" "cpu affinity" and "NUMA".
You will find stuff like this:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/cpu-pinning.67805/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c_451HV6fE

So yes, this is possible but most of the time PVE will do a better job if you let it hypervise and dynamically manage its ressources.

That looks like what i need. Thanks.

In most cases i would not but when running multiple ark servers they are known to trample each other. I'm running 12 ark servers and each needs 2 threads. (Well they can use a 3rd if you have enough network traffic but i don't.

This way when server 4 does a world save it won't screw with server 9.