POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: PovRay 3.7 maxes all 4 cores to 100% while rendering: Re: PovRay 3.7 maxes all 4 cores to 100% while rendering

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : PovRay 3.7 maxes all 4 cores to 100% while rendering : Re: PovRay 3.7 maxes all 4 cores to 100% while rendering		Server Time 30 Jul 2024 20:26:40 EDT (-0400)

From: Urs Holzer
Date: 2 Jul 2008 05:57:35
Message: <486b510f@news.povray.org>

Stonefox wrote:
> The whole idea of 3.7 is to max out every cpu to 100%? That doesnt do
> much for multitasking, not to mention the CPU heat rise.
> 
> 3.6 Doesnt max 100% of 1 processor.

I took a look at the UNIX source code of povray-3.7.0.beta.25b. I found
in source/frontend/processrenderoptions.cpp the following line (line
257):

{ "Work_Threads", kPOVAttrib_MaxRenderThreads, kPOVMSType_Int },

This is probably the ini option you are looking for.

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