Processor usage under 55%

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I encountered some performance problems while running programs. The processor
usage for one process is never higher than around 52-54%. Even a burn in test
didn't manage to recieve more processor time. It' also didn't help to change
the priority of the specific process. The only way to get the processor load
of around 100% is to start two burn in processes. What shall i do?
 
Whatever makes you think that the CPU has to run near 100%


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shadow said:
I encountered some performance problems while running programs. The processor
usage for one process is never higher than around 52-54%. Even a burn in test
didn't manage to recieve more processor time. It' also didn't help to change
the priority of the specific process. The only way to get the processor load
of around 100% is to start two burn in processes. What shall i do?
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Is this a HT Pentium 4? Have you gone into Task Manager and see if it
allows you to show one graph per CPU? If the processor has Hyper
Threading it acts like two CPUs and most programs will only use one at a
time. Your getting 100% with two copies of the program shows that each
CPU is running at full speed with each one handling a separate copy of
the program.
 
Yes it's a pentium 4 HT, yes i meant the overall CPU usage for both
processors, and none of them reaches even 60%, so the programm is definitly
running on both processors (maybe not at a particular moment, but overall).
The system performance monitor was running in the background (So it it had no
priority[optimize for apps]). I know that it acts like a multi processor
system, but i'am pretty sure that this usage isn't justified by any reason.
There is also definitly no virus on the machine because of the fact, that
this is a standalone PC.

Thanks for your reply, Michael W. Ryder
 
shadow said:
I encountered some performance problems while running programs. The
processor
usage for one process is never higher than around 52-54%. Even a burn
in test
didn't manage to recieve more processor time. It' also didn't help to
change
the priority of the specific process. The only way to get the processor
load
of around 100% is to start two burn in processes. What shall i do?
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if you really want 1 process to use 100% then you will need to disable
hyperthreading in your bios settings, basically it sounds like as
mentioned you have a hyperthreaded PC which means that it runs more
efficiently by spliting your cpu in 2 in simple terms. thats why you
dont get much over 50% for one process.

if you only ever run 1 program at a time, then turn of multithreading,
otherwise i would recomend to leave it on, as if you are using a
processer instensive program you will be able to do other stuff at the
same time.
 
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