"Chris Cason" <newsadmin-despam-@povray-no-spam.org> wrote in
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> "Niki Estner" <nik### [at] cube net> wrote in message
news:3bcef6cb$1@news.povray.org...
> > During the "building photon map" stage I can see no CPU activity in the
> > Win2000 task-manager.
>
> I get 75% CPU utilization at this point. But perhaps I have a faster
graphics
> sub-system (a slower one could pause the renderer for longer).
I have a Geforce graphics adapter - if this is slow, what do you have?
>
> > Maybe putting the texts into the status bar is done too often?
>
> This is a very good point. When I turned the status bar off, CPU use went
up
> to 100% on the same scene during the photon build stage. On the whole it
didn't
> make a huge difference (see below) but it could do so on slower machines.
I'll
> make some sort of work-around for it.
When I minimized PovRay to the tray, the CPU usage is still on 0%
>
> -- Chris
>
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> With status bar turned on ...
>
> Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 37.0 seconds (97 seconds)
> Time For Trace: 0 hours 0 minutes 8.0 seconds (8 seconds)
> Total Time: 0 hours 1 minutes 45.0 seconds (105 seconds)
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> With status bar turned off ...
>
> Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 24.0 seconds (84 seconds)
> Time For Trace: 0 hours 0 minutes 8.0 seconds (8 seconds)
> Total Time: 0 hours 1 minutes 33.0 seconds (93 seconds)
>
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