Processor Affinity and availableProcessors()

We user the call availableProcessors () from java.lang.Runtime to determine how many cores our application is running on. This is done for licensing reasons.
For customers running on a multicore machine who are not fully licensed for all cores, we tell them to use the processor affinity methods in both Windows and Linux. But here's the problem.
If you have a Windows dual core machine and don't set any processor affinity for the java app, you get a result of 2 which is the correct number of cores. If you set the affinity of the java app to one core on a Windows dual core machine, you get the results of 1. Which I believe to be correct because that is the number of processors available to java since the affinity has been set.
However, it is completely different in Linux. On a dual core Linux machine, setting affinity using taskset to one processor, availableProcessors() still returns 2.
Why is this? If the processor affinity has been set in Linux, then why would the number of available processors be reported incorrectly?

Hello,
I would assign 8 CPUs to affinity mask (CPU) and 8 CPUs to I/O affinity mask per instance.
Please read about why you should not assign the both to the same schedulers on the following post.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2010/11/19/how-it-works-io-affinity-mask-should-i-use-it.aspx
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Alberto Morillo
SQLCoffee.com

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Hello,
I would assign 8 CPUs to affinity mask (CPU) and 8 CPUs to I/O affinity mask per instance.
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Hope this helps.
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