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Article #5702Re: why does my application (only) use a max of 50% CPU time when viewedwith process explorer?
From: Jeff Overcash (TeamB)
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:46
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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