Hello,

   Pov-ray seems to believe that the atom Z520 (single core with HT), is a
single thread CPU and the "All CPU's benchmark" menuitem is missing, so only the
single thread benchmark can be run and the cpu usage is 50%.

   It seems to be a misinterpretation between "NumberOfCPUs" and "ThreadCount"
on pvengine.cpp.

Regards.

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It also fails on a dual Xeon E5645 with HT, only 50% of total CPU power is used,
is like HyperThreading is ignored.

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more details on the dual Xeon 6-core, total 24 threads on the system:

- Normal rendering is working ok, 100% cpu usage.
- Benchmark:
    - pvengine.exe -> uses 50% of total cpu power.
    - pvengine-sse2.exe -> uses 50% of total cpu power.
    - pvengine64.exe -> uses 100% of cpu, this seems the only exe that works ok
with the benchmark.

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The proposed fix is in line 1886 of pvengine.cpp:

replace this line:
    threadCount = benchmark_multithread ? NumberOfCPUs : 1 ;

with this other:
    threadCount = benchmark_multithread ? ThreadCount : 1 ;

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Also other line to modify is line 5906 of pvengine.cpp:

Change this:
  if (NumberOfCPUs == 1)

with this:
  if (ThreadCount == 1)

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The bug is partially fixed in RC6, in the dual xeon 12c/24t it runs at 100% cpu
usage, but with single-core hyperthreaded processors, like single core atom,
pentium 4, the option of "All CPUs" is not present, this should fix it:

At line 5906 of pvengine.cpp:

 Change this:
   if (NumberOfCPUs == 1)

 with this:
   if (ThreadCount == 1)

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Thanks for this information, I'll look into it and fix whatever is needed.

-- Chris

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