I have a dual-processor machine and would like to have the option to have the Grid Agent run only on a single processor at 100% rather than both processors at 50%. This is because I run the agent on a production machine and I want to minimize its impact to performance. I know that the agent already runs at the lowest possible priority on MS Windows, but it would seem the constant context switching from one processor to another must have some impact on overall machine performance. Is there anyone that can weigh in on the subject?

Anyways, it seems simple enough to add a command line switch that sets the agent's processor affinity. I think it would give system administrators another option (comfort level) when deploying the agent to under-utilized production machines which are great platforms for the agent since they typically run 24x7.