On the number of CPUs

[green2016]

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Hi,

I run a particular task that allows me to set up the number of CPUs. My computer has 8 CPUs. If I tell the task to use 8 CPUs, does this mean that I cannot run any other task until this job is finished?

*I am using BASH shell

[Irithori]

The kernel will decide which process gets the next cpu timeslices.
So even if a process runs on all available cores, other processes will still be processed.

Naturally, if there are multiple purely cpu bound processes, they will individually take longer.
But still, each process will get resources.

[Bigbiz]

Hi,

I run a particular task that allows me to set up the number of CPUs. My computer has 8 CPUs. If I tell the task to use 8 CPUs, does this mean that I cannot run any other task until this job is finished?

*I am using BASH shell

If you can run a program like computer moniter usually it will tell you. how much of the cpu you are using. And if you can run other programs at the same time.