Unable to use numactl to bind a isolated core

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Isolated cores
[root@example.com ~]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/isolated
2-3
  • When attempting to bind a process to an isolated CPU using the numactl command, the following warning message appears, and the operation fails.
[root@example.com ~]# numactl -C 2 date
libnuma: Warning: cpu argument 2 is out of range

<2> is invalid

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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