On 22/09/2015 11:09 AM, scott wrote:
>> Interesting. Perhaps you have a newer version of Process Explorer? Or
>> maybe there's some setting somewhere to configure this that I haven't
>> noticed...
>
> v16.05 here, can't see any relevant setting.
>
> If I tell POV to render with 6 threads I only get 50% usage, but with 12
> threads I get 100% usage.
>
> However the elapsed times for the benchmark are:
> 6 threads : 192s
> 12 threads : 136s
>
> So 50% CPU is actually more like 70% CPU, but I guess it depends on the
> exact algorithm (how nicely it can hyperthread).

Oh, I see. I'm still running the single-threaded POV-Ray binary. So if 
it uses 1 core, it says 12.5% CPU. I thought you were saying your copy 
says 100% for each CPU core used. ;-)

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