On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 14:21 -0500, DiscusZ wrote: > Oh ok.. what I am wondering is Vue's Rendercow program i do have it > running under wine, but can not tell how many cores its using > Of course you can. Install the sysstat package for your distro if it isn't already installed. It includes pidstat, which can be used to track how many processes are spawned by Rendercow: in Linux, threads == processes. A CPU bound program can't use more cores than the number of processes it spawns. Martin