Maximum all CPU usage

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have 8 CPUs and I want to maximize it. If I use forks, it doesn't seem to use the other CPUs. But if I use 8 programs, then the CPUs are all being used.

So, my question is why can't fork use the other CPUs? Because I would like to use only one program to controls all the sub-processes.

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Re: Maximum all CPU usage by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 03, 2010 at 00:12 UTC
why can't fork use the other CPUs? It can and does. If your code isn't, it is a limitation of your program; or perhaps your environment (affinity). If you show us the code, you'll probably get an explanation.	[reply]
Re: Maximum all CPU usage by Marshall (Canon) on Sep 02, 2010 at 23:36 UTC
what kind of O/S and Perl version are you using? This should work even with threads. Is there some short section of code that you could show that demo's the problem.	[reply]
Re: Maximum all CPU usage by Anonymous Monk on Sep 03, 2010 at 00:03 UTC
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and Perl 5.10.1.	[reply]