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  Re: using a quad core linux box to speed up povray  
From: Nicolas George
Date: 7 Mar 2008 04:15:26
Message: <47d107ae$1@news.povray.org>
"Rahul"  wrote in message
<web.47cf2bbb789d489659eba08c0@news.povray.org>:
> 1. At shell script level call povray serially in the background so that each
> successive call is rendered on a different core.

Instead of using a shell script, you can use a Makefile: with the -j option,
you can tell make to run n tasks in parallel; each time a task is completed,
a new is started, as long as there is work to do.


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