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Re: why does my application (only) use a max of 50% CPU time when viewedwith process explorer?

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From: Jeff Overcash (TeamB)
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:46
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Are you on a hyperthreaded machine?  If so and your app is single threaded then
the most you will see it use is 50% of the cpu.

Bruce wrote:
> 
> Hello folks,
> 
> I am the developer of a CAD type application used for mapping.  This
> program is sometimes used to perform very processor intensive operations
> on very large databases. When I use process explorer (from sysinternals)
> to examine it's CPU usage it always shows 50%? (With the system idle
> process getting the other 50%) Can anyone tell me what is going on
> here?? (in contrast for example, when I use Acrobat Pro to create a
> document it routinely runs right up at 99-100% typically?)
> 
> Any help on this will be appreciated...
> 
>         Bruce Larrabee

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