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Message 20149 - Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 7:00:05 UTC
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Hello, I am running a P4 2.6 ghz that is hyperthreaded and realized the cruncher was using only 50% of the cpu. Will it eventually use all cpu power when I leave the computer idle? I tried setting my preferences to use multiprocessors with a value of 2 and it started another cruncher and both used total of 99% of cpu. I just hope it uses all the cpu power while the PC is idle so it don\'t go to waste.
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Message 20150 - Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 7:33:46 UTC

> I just hope it uses all the cpu power while the PC is idle so it don\'t go to waste.

It will use all that is not used by other processes.

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Message 20152 - Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 11:11:53 UTC

In multiprocessor systems it shows 100 / number of processors. So an HT machine has 1 real processor and 1 virtual processor. Each processor is used 100%, but it shows as 50% usage when 1 is used, because half your processing speed is used. When you have 4 it shows 25% each, etc.

That is the normal way for it to work.


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