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Subject: Re: Question about XP Machine (OT)

Author: Andrew Platt

Date: 09:51:26 08/14/04

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On August 14, 2004 at 08:58:16, Jeff Lischer wrote:

>>Do you have an Intel HT processor?
>
>Yes it is an HT processor. How does that affect the CPU usage, or how it is
>displayed in the Task Manager?

An HT processor effectively has two CPUs which means that it can run two threads
simultaneously. If the chess engine is not multi-threaded it can only consume
one of them which shows as 50% of the overall available CPU.

If you ran an MT version of Crafty (for instance) you'll see it consume 100% of
the available CPU as it will create additional threads.

Andy.



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