linux and perl
 

I know that linux supports multiprocessors... I guess up to 8 in the 2.4 kernel and 32 in the 2.6. However, I've noticed one of my intensive perl scripts only uses 1 cpu at all times. Is this due to perl limitation, or do I need to configure perl, or do I need to configure something in the kernel.

Any help would be appreciated.

To my understanding its at the application level, not the hardware deciding on what uses one or more cpu's. I would think you could write a perl script that would utilize both cpu's, but I'm really uncertain.

I may have found two solutins.

1) use the fork and exec commands.


2) use ithreads in perl 5.8.