Author: Slater Wold
Date: 10:49:26 08/19/02
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On August 19, 2002 at 09:25:30, Gordon Rattray wrote: >On August 19, 2002 at 09:07:33, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On August 19, 2002 at 06:03:00, Gordon Rattray wrote: >> >>>I'm currently using a dual Athlon running Windows XP. When I run Fritz7 (single >>>processor version), I notice that the performance meter shows both processors at >>>100%. This 100% is definitely attributed to Fritz7 as I have nothing else >>>running (the performance meter listing confirms this). >>> >>>So, is the Fritz GUI (mines is dated 4th June 2002) using one of the CPUs flat >>>out, and the engine the other? Do others see this? I wouldn't expect the GUI >>>to do so, only the engine. >>> >>>I'm sure that this isn't right and that in the past only one CPU has been >>>getting used (50% CPU usage overall). I can only guess that something has got >>>"broken" and I need to re-install?! Any suggestions? >>> >>>Gordon >> >>Are you using Windows XP Home? >> >>If so, that's why. XP Home won't use more than 1 CPU. > > >Sorry, I should of mentioned... it's XP Professional. > >The reason I noticed it was that my dual PC started getting sluggish when >running Fritz7 with reasonably sized hash tables... GUI locking up, etc. It >didn't do that when I first started using Fritz7, for several months. > >I just wanted to check on here in case someone had seen the same problem. I >think I'm going to have to start the joys of re-installing, etc... hopefully >it's just a corrupted app and not WinXP itself getting mucked up. > >Gordon If I use 256MB+ of hash, and use a deep program, my system is actually pretty slow also. And I use Windows 2000 AS. Sounds like you need to "refresh". ;)
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