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Subject: Re: Crafty behavior on my dual core AMD ?

Author: Ray Banks

Date: 06:06:50 11/06/05

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On November 06, 2005 at 08:11:03, James T. Walker wrote:

>I'm looking at Crafty 19.01 running in Fritz GUI and also the Windows Task
>Manager.  With Ponder off and 1 cpu selected, the bottom of the task manager
>screen shows "CPU usage 50%" (as expected).  But looking at the 2 graphs (1 for
>each cpu) it looks like Crafty is using both cpus but around the 50% level.  In
>other words instead of one cpu showing the line at the top for full usage it's
>showing both cpu graphs at about the 50% level.  Seems strange to me.  Can
>anyone else confirm this?  Is this normal?
>Jim

Quite normal. The O/S is splitting the load across the processors.
You van achieve what you describe by setting processor affinity from task
manager



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