I noticed during baking physics (with 2,500 rigid bodies in a solidified cylinder) that, instead of using all 8 cores on my AMD FX-8150 CPU, it maxes one out at 100%, but then passes the baton onto another one, which goes at 100%, etc. but never seems to use them synchronously.
Baking takes a while with that many rigid bodies; is there a way to configure Blender to use all 100% of CPU when baking physics?
(Running Blender 2.74 x64 on Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 x64)