In one embodiment, a solution is provided wherein a lock manager is kept moving among multiple cores or processors in a multi-core or multi-processor environment. By “hopping” the lock manager from processor to processor, a bottleneck at any of the processors is prevented. The frequency of movement may be based on, for example, a counter that counts the number of input/outputs handled by the lock manager and moves the lock manager to a different processor once a determined threshold is met. In another embodiment of the present invention, the frequency of the movement between processors may be based on a time that counts the amount of time the lock manager has been operating on the processor and moves the lock manager to a different processor once a predetermined time is reached.