Mathematica's CPU utilization
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg59136] Mathematica's CPU utilization
- From: The Phantom <phantom at aol.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 01:25:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
After installing the latest 5.2 rev on my Pentium 4 running Windows XP, I thought to have a look at the CPU utilization. While Mathematica was busy doing a long numerical integration, and no other applications were running, I activated the task manager and was surprised to see that the two main users of CPU time were the Mathematica kernel at 51% and the system idle process at 48%. Does anybody know if it's possible to get the kernel up to something closer to 100% utilization? Should I blame Mathematica or Windows XP? wink, wink, nudge, nudge. ;-)