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Mac pro 2 dual-core using only 25% of CPU power.

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 8:41 am
by Torviz
Today I tried Maxwell on a MacPro 2xDualCore... The console detect my 4 processors... But in the end Maxwell uses only one !!!

In the activity monitor though... only one core at a time is ever used. Switching randomly from core to core... like 20 seconds on first processor... 10 seconds on second... 15 seconds on fourth... The activity monitor shows a usage of 102% for Maxwell... 25%(100% of one core) + 75% iddle.

Anyone ?

Daniel

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:55 am
by Dexel
Daniel,
looks like a single thread render. Did you try setting the thread number to 4 or 0 (either in plugin or studio)? This should cause acitivity of almost 400%.

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:10 am
by Torviz
Dexel wrote:Daniel,
looks like a single thread render. Did you try setting the thread number to 4 or 0 (either in plugin or studio)? This should cause acitivity of almost 400%.
Yep It was MY fault !!!! Tread setting was a 1... on that particular scene.

Sorry for that.