September 21, 20232 yr The system is dual Xeon CPU's. For VM's, I have been pinning/isolating cores from the CPU that is controlling the video card PCI-E slot (that was fun trying to figure out...). I've been curious if there is any advantage to having pinned cores split half and half from each CPU, or is it better to just pin one CPUs cores to a VM...or does it matter at all?!?! Is there any benefit to having both CPU's involved (pinned and/or isolated) in a single VM? Additionally, I am thinking of adding 3 or 4 VM's for the kids to use to do homework, stream videos and maybe some light lan gaming. Is there anything wrong with pinning the same cores to multiple VM/Docker containers to share at once, with a video card for each, all running at the same time? I, suppose i would have to monitor overall usage in the unraid dashboard, and add more cores to the lot if needed, or for the overachieving kid who installs a 3D cad compiler on their VM or something 😎). (Sorry if this was already discussed somewhere else; maybe i've missed the threads discussing this already? I am quite green at this Linux stuff, but I'm trying to get better.)
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