POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Hyperthreading : Re: Hyperthreading Server Time
29 Jul 2024 02:34:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Hyperthreading  
From: clipka
Date: 6 Jul 2012 06:17:08
Message: <4ff6bb24$1@news.povray.org>
Am 05.07.2012 20:22, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
> My PC has a quad-core CPU with hyperthreading. Which means that Windows
> claims it has 8 cores, and when I run POV-Ray, it claims to be using
> 12.5% CPU.
>
> Right now, I have 4 copies of POV-Ray running, each working on a
> different task. Each copy is using 12.5% CPU, and Windows reports a
> total of 50% CPU usage. (In spite of the fact that I'm actually using
> ALL the cores available.)

You're doing something fundamentally wrong here: You should have a 
single instance of POV-Ray running, with 100% CPU utilization :-P

(Hint: Get POV-Ray 3.7!)


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