Re: Mathematica's CPU utilization
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- Subject: [mg59166] Re: Mathematica's CPU utilization
- From: "Wishmaster" <wishmaster at imaginary.marreka.no-ip.com>
- Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:30:40 -0400 (EDT)
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"The Phantom" <phantom at aol.com> escreveu na mensagem news:dcf3a9$lg1$1 at smc.vnet.net... > 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. ;-) Are you using a Hyper-Threading Pentium IV CPU? If so, I found that this seems to be normal: the same thing happens here. 100% load in 1 CPU and not much load in other. []s -- []s Renan (aka Wishmaster) - Canoas, RS, Brazil my e-mail address is: renan DOT birck AT gmail DOT com (nb: marreka.no-ip.com -> /dev/null)