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If you launch two instances of the same nodelet and they perform identical processing on identical data, then it is natural that combined they would use twice the CPU time as one instance. You need to provide more information about what you are doing and what you want to achieve. How much performance drop have you seen? What are your nodelets doing, and on what sort of data?

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