"Jonathan Morton" <chr### [at] chromatixdemoncouk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Having just installed POV-Ray 3.5 on my PowerBook G3, running MacOS
> 10.1.5, I was a bit surprised to see it using only about 50-70% CPU,
> even with nothing else running and the "Friendliness" set to
> "Tyrrannical".  This seems to be independent of whether Preview is
> switched on, or the particular scene file in use.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?

This is normal. Under Mac OS X no application may hog the whole CPU.
Thus POV-Ray cannot get as much CPU time as under Mac OS 9.  For this
reason the documentation/requirements recommend using Mac OS 9 for
maximum render speed.

    Thorsten


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Thorsten Froehlich
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I am a member of the POV-Ray Team.
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