[ale] Processor usage

[Brian Mathis]

The java process is single-threaded, so it can only ever run on 1 core.
The code itself would have to be updated to support breaking down workloads
into smaller parts that could be handled by different processes, which
could then utilize additional cores.


❧ Brian Mathis


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Adrya Stembridge <
adrya.stembridge at gmail.com> wrote:

> A colleague and I were looking at some ontology data yesterday using java
> via command line.  I noticed that CPU utilization averaged 99% on a system
> with 24 cores.  The data processing is intense and time consuming.  We're
> wondering if this could be sped up by forcing the machine to use more CPU
> resources.    In the past, I've seen utilization reach around 1500% while
> encoding video.
>
> Is it possible (or safe) to instruct or force java to use more cores in
> processing our data, or am I looking at this the wrong way?
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