affinity mask
Type: Advanced option
Default value: 0
When a server is experiencing a heavy load because other applications are running on the same server, it might be desirable to bind thread affinity to a processor.
affinity mask is a bitmapped field that provides SQL Server threads an affinity to processors. This is typically used in conjunction with the affinity I/O mask option just described. Starting from the least-significant digit, each bit that is set to 1 represents the processor on which SQL Server will spawn its threads. Processors are numbered from 0 to 7. An example of the bitmask values for the first seven processors of an eight-processor system follows (with decimal values shown in parentheses):
You usually leave the eighth processor ...
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