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ROS doesn't provide any native tools for pinning tasks to CPUs, but it doesn't fight the existing tools either.

There is a general-purpose linux tool called taskset which can pin tasks to CPUs, and I've used it with ROS quite successfully in the past. You could probably use it in your startup script to limit each launch file to a single core.

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