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Re: Mathematica uses only 50% of processor?

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• Subject: [mg57711] Re: Mathematica uses only 50% of processor?
• From: "Xavier Brusset" <brusset at poms.ucl.ac.be>
• Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 04:17:53 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Universite Catholique de Louvain
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You are probably using a Pentium with hyper threading capability. This
enables the processor to become a virtual double core and is seen as such by
Windows.
When you access the task manager, it probably shows the CPU in 2 windows.
One will be working at 100% and the other at next to 0. That's because
Mathematica is using up all it can but on only one
"http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/6552virtual"; processor.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Xavier
PhD student
Université Catholique de Louvain
Belgium