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Subject: Re: engine cpu usage

Author: Bahram Namjou

Date: 00:21:11 08/06/05

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I am using P4 wxp with hyperthreading, and all of my engines are deep version .
In case of shredder 9 (deep) display shows 100% usage and both line are in top;
however in other engines, one graph is higher than the other with the total cpu
usage of 50 to 60%. So my question is how we can increase this usage for
non-shredder engins for example from 50%-60%  to 70 or 80% (again overclocking
or changing the affinity doesn't affect this)...thanks, bn


On August 06, 2005 at 02:47:01, Rick Hagen wrote:

>On August 06, 2005 at 00:49:38, Bahram Namjou wrote:
>
>>Some of chess engines only use 50% to 60% of cpu according to task manager and
>>some use 100% such as shredder. How we can control this? Is it possible to
>>increase cpu usage for those engines which only use about 50% of cpu, without
>>overclocking or change the affinity (none of them works in this case)...regards
>
>
>What system do you use?
>If you are using hyperthreading (P4 with win-XP pro) you will notice that
>Shredder 8 (for example) uses two threads, and most other native cb and
>uci-engines use 1 thread (or cpu).
>If you use Fritz (not the deep version) it will use "50 %" but that's because it
>only uses 1 thread.
>My advice concerning Shredder (previous to 9 version) is that you only use 1
>thread on a Hyperthreading system. It doesn't play better using Hyperthreading,
>at least not at faster time-controls.
>You can change this in the engine-parameters.
>
>If you are using a double-cpu rig, then it's another story of course.
>In that case however, be careful when playing a ponder-on match between a single
>cpu-engine and e.g. Shredder.
>
>RickH



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