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Merge cpu cores for specific program [duplicate]

Minecraft is an old game that was coded to use only one core, which is bad for performance today, so I was thinking if there is a way to like merge 2 cores for that specific program and make the ...
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Find process running in CPU core Win10

I have a multi-core Win10 machine. Some process consumes 100% CPU in a core, while overall CPU consumption remains low. I can identify the core - but not the process running in it. Need to figure out ...
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Is it possible to merge CPU cores?

Back in the past there was something called hyperthreading where a single CPU core acted like two cores. But is it possible to merge two CPU cores to an single one to improve performance on programs ...
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Virtual Domain Cpu Time limit

I'm running Munin on Ubuntu 14.04 to monitor my virtual machines (running KVM, libvirt). I often get a notification that CPU usage on my base system is 'critical': mydomain :: Virtual Domain Cpu Time ...
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How is CPU time measured on Windows?

I am currently creating a program which identifies processes which are hung/out-of-control, and using an entire CPU core. The program then terminates them, so the CPU usage can be kept under control. ...
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Will multicore allow the same CPU usage as multi CPU [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Multi-core CPU: can I say I have a 3x2.1GHz=6.3GHz CPU? I plan to buy latop with with i5-2410M processor that have 2 cores (according to spec it can also have 4 threads). I ...
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Ubuntu not balancing cpu usage among cores, making load go up

I am running 10 processes that each use 20-70% of a core of an i7-920 with 8 cores on Ubuntu 11.04. CPU scaling is turned off. When I look at htop, I see that cores 4 and 8 are almost unused, while ...
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Why does top report more than the theoretical maximum CPU usage of a machine?

I would like to know why I have a process being able to report a usage line like: PID COMMAND %CPU 248 Xcode 983.5 … in top on a quad core CPU? I understand it's wrong, but how come? I'm ...
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