POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Need to run POVRAY on a single thread : Re: Need to run POVRAY on a single thread Server Time
28 Mar 2024 18:23:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Need to run POVRAY on a single thread  
From: William F Pokorny
Date: 9 Feb 2023 07:06:28
Message: <63e4e1c4$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/9/23 03:01, jr wrote:
>> Assuming that the CPU threads refers to the trace time, is there any similar
>> ways to minimise number of threads or impact of threads on photon time and
>> radiosity time. Screenshots of CPU Utilisation are attached for reference

> not that I'm aware of, but hope someone in-the-know will butt in.

While making no claims to being in the know... ;-) My understanding 
matches yours jr.

I think the state of things is there is always more threads than +WTn 
active though often they are not consuming time. For example, there is a 
master thread sitting atop and managing the rendering threads - which 
consumes little time.

I'm not sure off the top of my head how the POV-Ray reported thread 
counts come about for photons and radiosity with respect to threads used 
and +WTn.

Bill P.


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