Author: James T. Walker
Date: 06:16:48 11/06/05
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On November 06, 2005 at 09:06:50, Ray Banks wrote: >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 Thanks for the info. It seems that setting the afinity also improves my Fritz Mark slightly. I guess it saves time by not switching from one cpu to the other all the time.
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