Specifying Core

[mattsh]

I have an application that is maxing out one of the cores of my CPU (my CPU monitor shows 50% total.. and 100% for this app). Is there some flag.. or something I can throw or do to make this app run on both cores to speed it up?

 

[tyr2]

It's probably only a single threaded application, i.e. designed to run on a single core. There's nothing you can do to make it run on more than one core. Applications must be specifically designed to make use of multiple cores.

What application is it?

 

[mattsh]

It's probably only a single threaded application, i.e. designed to run on a single core. There's nothing you can do to make it run on more than one core. Applications must be specifically designed to make use of multiple cores.

What application is it?

Both parallels (I know why it runs on one core.. but wondered if I could make it run on two).. and also the sims2.

 

[theheyes]

I have an application that is maxing out one of the cores of my CPU (my CPU monitor shows 50% total.. and 100% for this app). Is there some flag.. or something I can throw or do to make this app run on both cores to speed it up?

Just put your feet up and let OS X's scheduler do its job.

Seriously though the previous poster got it right, if its a single threaded app then theres nothing you can do.