It is the Idle Process that is getting the rest of the time, not any other
process or service.
Has anybody else seen this?

--John

"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3aac2588@news.povray.org...
> In article <3aabe4f8$1@news.povray.org> , "John M. Dlugosz"
> <joh### [at] dlugoszcom> wrote:
>
> > WHY would the system be idle so much when MegaPOV is running?  I would
> > expect it to use 100% CPU if nothing else needed attention.
>
> POV-Ray uses all CPU time it gets from the system, it does not change
> CPU usage in any way.  If it does not get enough CPU time this depends
> on the individual setup of your system and the priority setting of the
> POV-Ray process.  The Windows version allows you to set the priority of
> the POV-Ray render process, but this is unlikely the cause of what you
> observe.  You may want to check for background processes or other system
> services eating up the remaining CPU time.
>
>
>      Thorsten

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