POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Dual Processor : Re: Dual Processor Server Time
29 Jul 2024 04:27:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Dual Processor  
From: Rick [Kitty5]
Date: 21 Dec 2002 13:56:39
Message: <3e04b967@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Rick [Kitty5] <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote:
>> Just remember to assign each instance of povray to a seperate CPU in
>> task manager before you start rendering
>
>   It would be incredibly stupid multitasking from WinXP if it
> assigned two extremely heavy processes to the same processor, while
> the other processor is mostly idle.
>   I don't believe that even MS can do things that bad.

It dosnt know a process is going to be a heavy one when it decides which
processor it will be running on, it just sticks it on the CPU that at that
instant has less load.

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Rick

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