Thomas de Groot wrote:
> My experience, with POV-Ray 3.7 on a dual core XP machine, with priority
> set to "lower than normal", is that both cores take up the full 100% cpu
> during render, slowing down all other applications having the focus during
> that time. Again, I repeat myself, I seem to remember that Priority was
> disabled during beta development, but I have had no confirmation of that
> until now.

Getting 100% CPU usage is expected. But you shouldn't be getting any 
slowdown.

Processes with low priority get all the CPU timeslices that aren't being 
used by a process with higher priority. As soon as an app in normal priority 
tries to use the CPU, POV-Ray will use less of it.

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