December 20, 20187 yr hi, so i've already read the stickes, watched spaceinvaderones videos but i still dont know what i should exactly do. i got a i3-8100, so 4 cores, 4 threads, no HT. i would like to max out the gaming performance, but i have a few questions regarding the cpu pinning/isolating. can i isolate all of the cores? i guess not? could i assign just 1 core to unRAID and then 3 cores to my win10 vm? would that be the best case? and do i have to use the method from the stickies or is it possible to use the unRAID ui, as it seems like thats its given me the option to pin and isolate cpu cores there. and is it possible to have more than one setting? for example, if i start my win10vm, some cores will be isolated, once i stop it, the get reassigned to unraid. greetings
December 20, 20187 yr There is no right or wrong answer. It really boils down to number and type of VMs and dockers. Personally with only one VM, I wouldn't isolate CPUs unless there is a reason to. That way unRAID has acess to all CPUs. I'd then give my VM 3 CPUs leaving zero unpinned, so unRAID and any dockers would always have CPU access if VM is working hard. I have several VMs and dockers. My VMs with GPUs passed through get their own pinned CPUs. The headless VMs share half their CPUs with other VMs. unRAID and dockers have access to all. I might give my primary VM some access to shared CPU since its been close to max at times while gaming. Totally flexible! Edited December 20, 20187 yr by WashingtonMatt
December 20, 20187 yr Author i only use one vm at a time, mostly my win10 gaming vm. so you would isolate 3 cpus and give them to the vm?
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