POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Semantics? : Re: Semantics? Server Time
5 Jul 2024 06:53:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Semantics?  
From: Ger
Date: 1 Sep 2015 05:32:34
Message: <55e570b2@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot wrote:

> Coming up often and just noted that again in Ger's answer in the thread
> above.
> 
> What is the meaning of percentages higher than 100? I don't get it.
> 
> If my bottle of wine is considered 100% full, what would be 200%? Two
> bottles of wine? :-)
> 

The answer is pretty simple. 
If 1 (one) core is working on povray that would be 100% load. If 2 cores are 
working on povray that would be 2 x 100%. So, in my case that would be 8 
cores, each working at (or close to) 100%, so 800%.
The percentage load is taken from the "1 core" or "1 proc" view.
-- 

Ger


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