virtualbox xp running mkv2vob one core 100% second core 12 %

[Russell Burrows]

I have Ubuntu 8.10 no problems and virtualbox runs good running tinyxp.

As soon as I run mkv2vob to transcode a x264 video file on my dual core toshiba laptop satellite l305d-s5892 I get:

Core one at 100% and core two from nine % to 17%

Is there any way to even out the loads on these two cores?

Thank you.

[Dedoimedo]

Unless the kernel can do it + application can do it, any hack on your behalf will be suboptimized. Multiple cores are a good idea, but not all OS / applications (with system access) can utilize them in the best fashion.

This may interest you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Uniform_Memory_Access

Dedoimedo

[Russell Burrows]

Thanks.

I am going to give this a try_:

http://www.hardware.info/en-US/news/ym2cmZqYwp2a/Problems_updating_to_a_dualcore_CPU_Not_anymore/