2009/6/8 James Parson <[email protected]>: > >> You might have to use vmware workstation in order to configure the >> virtual machine to use more than 1 core: >> >> http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/ >> >> It costs money, but there is an easy 1-month free trial. You could try >> that in order to tell whether multiple cores will work with the >> virtual machine. > > Thanks for your suggestion. I downloaded the trial version of > Workstation, and I was able to change a "Processor" setting so that > VMWare Workstation said that it was using 2 processors. Even after > that change, though, if I started two worksheets with independent > calculations, they still ran on just one core. Do you have any other > thoughts? >
Here's a really dumb thing you could do. (1) Make a copy of sage-vmware-* to another directory. (2) Run both vmware's at the same time. That'll definitely use both cores on your computer. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
