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Subject: Re: Question about XP Machine (OT)

Author: Sean Empey

Date: 21:53:30 08/13/04

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On August 13, 2004 at 22:42:16, Jeff Lischer wrote:

>While analyzing a position with engines in Arena, I checked the Task Manager to
>see CPU usage. Much to my surprise, I discovered that no application gets more
>than 50% of the CPU time. 'System Idle Process' is listed as about 50% also.
>
>Is there some priority setting in XP to prevent programs from hogging too much
>CPU time? Or could I have something running in the background (like a virus
>scanner), that's taking up resources?
>
>Thanks for any ideas!

Do you have an Intel HT processor?



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