POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.bugreports : low CPU load : Re: low CPU load Server Time
28 Sep 2024 11:02:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: low CPU load  
From: Markus Becker
Date: 3 Dec 1998 08:19:22
Message: <36668FCA.191D74C5@zess.uni-siegen.de>
It's just that is singel threaded. One thread running on a two
processor system can use up to 50% of processing power.
Try starting another rendering thread (i.e. 2xPOVray)
and the CPU should go up to 100%

It has nopthing to do with priotity or other TSRs running.

Markus

Lapo Luchini wrote:
> 
> Don't know if it's a bug..
> 
> I have a dual-P2-400 machine, using NT4; when I do a render POV only
> uses 30% of the CPU; the max it could use is 50% (it's single threaded,
> right?) but why doesn't use all the CPU he can get EVEN if priority is
> set ti REALTIME?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> 
> Lapo 'Dr.Brain' Luchini
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> http://lapo.home.ml.org (ICQ UIN: 529796)


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