I'm running a very time-consuming script which takes many hours to end. Watching top I see that it's only taking 5% of the CPU at best, usually around 3%.

Is there any way to force the script to use more CPU in order to end faster?

Edit:

Basically the script is bruteforcing 5 chars length passwords given a the salt and the hash.

Not at home right now, but something like:

charset = ['a','b',.........'z'];
for i in $charset do
   for j in $charset do
       for k in $charset do
           for l in $charset do
              for m in $charset do
                  pass = `openssl -salt $1 $i$j$k$l$m`
                  if [ pass == $2 ]]; then
                     echo "Password: $i$j$k$l$m";
                     exit;
                  fi
               done
            done
        done
    done
 done

I'm running a very time-consuming script which takes many hours to end. Watching top I see that it's only taking 5% of the CPU at best, usually around 3%.

Is there any way to force the script to use more CPU in order to end faster?

Edit:

Basically the script is bruteforcing 5 chars length passwords given a the salt and the hash.

Not at home right now, but something like:

charset = ['a','b',.........'z'];
for i in $charset do
   for j in $charset do
       for k in $charset do
           for l in $charset do
              for m in $charset do
                  pass = `openssl passwd -salt $1 $i$j$k$l$m`
                  if [ pass == $2 ]]; then
                     echo "Password: $i$j$k$l$m";
                     exit;
                  fi
               done
            done
        done
    done
 done

I'm running a very time-consuming script which takes many hours to end. Watching top I see that it's only taking 5% of the CPU at best, usually around 3%.

Is there any way to force the script to use more CPU in order to end faster?

I'm running a very time-consuming script which takes many hours to end. Watching top I see that it's only taking 5% of the CPU at best, usually around 3%.

Is there any way to force the script to use more CPU in order to end faster?

Edit:

Basically the script is bruteforcing 5 chars length passwords given a the salt and the hash.

Not at home right now, but something like:

charset = ['a','b',.........'z'];
for i in $charset do
   for j in $charset do
       for k in $charset do
           for l in $charset do
              for m in $charset do
                  pass = `openssl -salt $1 $i$j$k$l$m`
                  if [ pass == $2 ]]; then
                     echo "Password: $i$j$k$l$m";
                     exit;
                  fi
               done
            done
        done
    done
 done