Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

Camaleón put forth on 1/9/2011 10:59 AM:

> http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/api/#speed
> 
> The above doc provides hints on how to speed-up image magick operations. 
> 
> Note that multi-threading should be automatically used whether possible, 
> as per this paragraph:
> 
> ***
> # IM by default uses multiple threads for image processing operations. 
> That means you can have the computer do two or more separate threads of 
> image processing, it will be faster than a single CPU machine. 
> ***
> 
> I'm afraid you will have to find out whether your IM package was compiled 
> with multi-threading capablities.

I'm using the i386 Lenny package.  Obviously it wasn't, or it would be
working, and it is not.

No script ideas Camaleón?  You're not a script kiddie?

-- 
Stan