[CoLoCo] How do I make a program fully utilize my dual-core processor?

[James Wyatt]

Assuming both instances can work on different hashes you could run your
app twice and assign processor affinity to each process.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6799

You could do something with erlang if you wanted to do it with style,
but that would certainly be overkill.

Jim



On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Ringo <2600denver at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hey Ubuntu experts,
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> I've got an intel dual-core processor which Ubuntu (intrepid) runs great
> on. It will fully utilize both cores if I've got lots of programs
> running but each program is confined to only one core.
>
> I've looked around online to find out how to make a program use both
> cores, but I can't find any advice on this outside of the convoluted
> process of running a program inside a virtual machine. I'm trying to
> recover a password from a hash and one core is at 100% while the other
> is around 3% usage.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Ringo
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