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26 Apr 2024 05:06:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Does POV not use Intel's "performance" cores?  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 21 Oct 2022 14:53:59
Message: <6352eac7$1@news.povray.org>
On 10/21/2022 11:49 AM, kagehi.k wrote:
> "Scott" <spa### [at] spamcom> wrote:
>>>> The solution is to keep priority as "Normal" in POV, then immediately after
>>>> starting the render, go into Task Manager and change the priority of the POV
>>>> process to Normal. This then makes it use all logical cores.
>>>>
>>>> A bit inconvenient, I wonder why "Normal" in POV is converted to "Below Normal"
>>>> in task manager?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Use the high priority with +wt22. That'll leave two cores for other
>>> tasks. Or, use +wt23, leaving 1 core for the OS and other processes. You
>>> may want to add that switch directly in quickres.ini
>>
>> Good idea, I found I need to go down to +wt20 to keep the OS properly responsive
>> (+wt22 is still very slow for opening apps etc). Going down from +wt24 to +wt20
>> increases render times on an example from 67 to 74 seconds, which is fine for
>> short test renders.
> 
> Wouldn't a better fix, over the long run, be to have POV ask how many cores
> there are, then determine how to set both how many it uses, and what to tell the
> OS, based on that? Or, just have an option to have it tell you how many are
> available, and adjust how many you let it use, in the application? Having to
> mess with the number of cores (especially if you have no clue), or monkey with
> what the OS is looking at, after its starts a render, seems.. unnecessarily
> fiddly.
> 
> BTW... Anyone know what Mozilla screwed up in the latest Thunderbird? This is
> the first post I made in a while and had to make it on the website, because
> Thunderbird kept filling in the fields for "reply to" and "newgroup" as "Scott
> <spam&spam>" and "-blank-"... Frustrating...
> 
Never mind.. Seems this is a bloody UI change, and I didn't notice that 
its now got a "reply" button, THEN "followup"... Sigh.

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