Proper affinity settings with 5 WoWs on 4 cores?

Hi,


has anyone found out the most reliable and well-performing way of configuring core affinities when 5-boxing on a 4 core CPU?

The way I see it there are several possible solutions. What works best?

when I run my five on one box I use the following:

Core 0 not used
Core 1 Main Wow
Core 2 Wow 2&3
Core 3 Wow 4&5

reason being that if the system needs to do anything it has core 0 available, Core 1 is for my main instance and the other four run on the two remaining cores.
It has worked well so far without problems (Vista Ultimate 64 8GB RAM)

I concur with the last poster, I run mine the same way when I run 5.

So do I.

Core 0 - instance 1
Core 1 - instance 2
Core 2 - instance 3
Core 3 - instance 4 and 5

I don't use this box for anything other than playing WoW, so there isn't anything interfering with using core 0.

I set Affinity to 15 on all instances which means let Wow handle it. Monitoring the cpu usage it seems to even it out across all 4 cores very well.

I am a total moron (or let's assume that). I don't know anything about affinity, but I am interested to know how to set what runs where. I can currently run 5 WoW on my first two cores only, but I would like to bump that down. Is there a post or a something someone can link about this?

I actually did a little homework and found this http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/14...-affinity.html This answers my question and should answer anyone else with the same type of inquiry.

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Originally Posted by 'Sarduci',index.php?page=Thread&postID=75161#post7 5161

Core 0 - instance 1
Core 1 - instance 2
Core 2 - instance 3
Core 3 - instance 4 and 5

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Same here. Also have IE and Windows Media Player running in the background.

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Originally Posted by 'mikekim',index.php?page=Thread&postID=75128#post7 5128

when I run my five on one box I use the following:

Core 0 not used
Core 1 Main Wow
Core 2 Wow 2&3
Core 3 Wow 4&5

reason being that if the system needs to do anything it has core 0 available, Core 1 is for my main instance and the other four run on the two remaining cores.
It has worked well so far without problems (Vista Ultimate 64 8GB RAM)

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QFE, I do nearly the same (with 3 accounts) The theory about core 0 is solid, too.

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Originally Posted by 'Sarduci',index.php?page=Thread&postID=75161#post7 5161

Core 0 - instance 1
Core 1 - instance 2
Core 2 - instance 3
Core 3 - instance 4 and 5

I don't use this box for anything other than playing WoW, so there isn't anything interfering with using core 0.

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Except the Operating System ;) which if it is vista is actually a big interference :D

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Originally Posted by 'mikekim',index.php?page=Thread&postID=75128#post7 5128

when I run my five on one box I use the following:

Core 0 not used
Core 1 Main Wow
Core 2 Wow 2&3
Core 3 Wow 4&5

reason being that if the system needs to do anything it has core 0 available, Core 1 is for my main instance and the other four run on the two remaining cores.
It has worked well so far without problems (Vista Ultimate 64 8GB RAM)

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This one wins!