Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:51:29 11/18/03
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On November 18, 2003 at 09:17:09, Andreas Stabel wrote: >I've got a strange problem with my computer. >I'm running a 3GHz machine with 1GB memory and Windows XP Professional. >The machine is hyperthreaded, but my versions of Crafty and Ruffian are >single threaded. > >When I start analysis the machine runs with full speed, but already after >ca. 4-5 mins. it is running with the speed of a 2GHz machine and it is >still slowing down. > >I also noticed that it runs the same programs with big variations in speed. >I've tried stopping all other programs and turning off virus checking, but >nothing seems to help. > >I've upgraded from XP Home to XP Professional - I don't know if that is >releveant. > >Anybody got an idea how to help fix my problem ? > >Best regards >Andreas Stabel If you disable hyper-threading, do you still see this? SMT can make the CPU appear slower, because it makes it look like two CPUs. The sum total of the computing power of both logical CPUs is greater than a single physical CPU. But one of those logical CPUs will certainly appear slower than the real CPU...
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