POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Not using all CPU : Re: Not using all CPU Server Time
20 Apr 2024 08:48:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Not using all CPU  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 13 Jan 2021 05:55:20
Message: <5ffed198$1@news.povray.org>
Le 12/01/2021 à 23:29, Mike Horvath a écrit :
> 6 physical cores
> 12 logical cores
> 
> What is "WT"? Thanks.
> 

WT is working thread; the number of thread uses by the engine to trace.

+WT1 forces to use a single thread.

IIRC, windows is not very cooperative in its scheduler, so using all the
cores might be dangerous.
Also, did you check if you have any "thermal" tuning (I do not know if
that change make it in the production version, it was done for
space-ship usage). It might be all in the menu part.


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