Increase speed of a particular job

[green2016]

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Hi,

If I am copying hundreds of files from one folder to another using the terminal, is there any way I can add an argument to use n number of CPUs for this particular job?

[Irithori]

What makes you think that the job saturates a cpu?

First gather and evaluate the metric graphs of iowait, load, iops, etc
Then you can know the current bottleneck and evaluate options.

[green2016]

What makes you think that the job saturates a cpu?

First gather and evaluate the metric graphs of iowait, load, iops, etc
Then you can know the current bottleneck and evaluate options.

It was just a curiosity. Can one perform a simple

cp * /my_data_here /my_data_there

over hundreds/thousands of files and speed up the process by increasing the number of CPUs used to run this task?

[Irithori]

This command is most likely io bound, not cpu bound.
So: no.

[nihili]

cp * /my_data_here /my_data_there

is this the exact command that is giving you trouble?
what do you think it does?
i'm not sure it's good or even valid syntax.
shouldn't you be using the -r option instead?
did you read

man cp

???
this might have an impact on performance.
anyhow, the bottleneck is the underlying storage hardware's i/o capabilities, NOT the cpu.