Re: Limiting the number of cores used by a single kernel?
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- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:59:59 -0400 (EDT)
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On 4/26/13 at 11:10 PM, georgevw3 at mac.com (George Woodrow III) wrote: >On Apr 26, 2013, at 4:25 AM, bradc355113 at yahoo.com wrote: >>I've noticed recently (beginning in v8 or so) that some functions seem >>to make use of multiple threads internally. For example, Resolve and >>some linear algebra functions will push my CPU usage up to 400% while >>they run, even with just one kernel. >>Is there a way to limit this? >In Mathematica 9 (and earlier for all I know), in Preferences, there >is a panel labeled Parallel. >There is a section for local kernels, and you can manually set the >number of kernels. >Setting this to 1 should solve your problem. I don't think this will solve the original poster's problem. This would prevent multiple kernels from being launched and consequently prevent Mathematica's ability to do parallel processing. But it would not prevent multiple threads from being launched which is something different than parallel processing. Note the original poster stated the problem occurred when only one kernel was launched. Frankly, I don't know how to keep Mathematica from launching multiple threads or even what might cause Mathematica to do so. That quite likely has to be restricted by some system setting independent of Mathematica.