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Dual/quad core & hyperthreading

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How do you enable dual/quad core on 11.10? or is it already enabled? What about hyperthreading too? Using a 64 bit i5 laptop.

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Best David Racine (bass-dr) said : 		#1

Hi, it is already enabled actually. Some program need to be tuned for you cpu architecture though. For instance, "make" accepts the parameter -j to tune the number of paralell process, I have a hyperthreaded quad core (intel i7) and the parameter that fits best for me is `make -j9` wich is 8 logical cores +1

Generaly speaking, you don't have to do anything to do to enable multi-core

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Shaun (shaunhankey) said : 		#2

Thank you! Much appreciated my friend.

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Shaun (shaunhankey) said : 		#3

Thanks Bass_DR, that solved my question.