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smakked

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From: Gold Coast , Australia

Registered: 2008-08-14

Posts: 419

How to make better use Of a Dualcore system?

Ok , Getting back in to Linux and so far so good , but today i noticed it doesn't seem to allocate cores very well.
What i mean is when i used Vista i Used to be able to encode a movie to dvd and burn it and game or browse with out any issue.
Now doing this today while i was suing DeVeDe to convert a File it was sluggish and un responsive, and just seem to hang, i also noticed that
it was only using 1 core of my cpu? Is it just the way it is compiled?

By the way im on Arch 64bit .
With 2 cores you should be able to Multi task like a mofo, but it doesn't seem so on Linux?

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: How to make better use Of a Dualcore system?

DeVeDe's probably programmed only use one core. There's not much the kernel can do about that.

Have a look at schedtool, it'll let you do some pretty cool things wrt processor affinity and difference scheduling priorities.

James

smakked

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From: Gold Coast , Australia

Registered: 2008-08-14

Posts: 419

Re: How to make better use Of a Dualcore system?

Thanks thats the sort of thing i was looking for.

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