Re: [AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

2006-08-25 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Christian Walther wrote: A nice example of a program being able to do threading, but one CPU (core) only is python. This is not strictly correct: Python relies on a global interpreter lock (aka GIL) to protect internal data structures. When code in the Python process doesn't require access

[AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

2006-08-24 Thread Laurent C
Hello all, I can't get my athlon x2 processor working at 100% on cpu-intensive apps. I've made some tests with john --test and transcode, wich are both multithreaded apps. For example if I launch transcode it takes between 50% and 55% cpu (on top), and if I launch a second transcode session on

Re: [AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

2006-08-24 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thursday 24 August 2006 13:09, Laurent C wrote: Hello all, I can't get my athlon x2 processor working at 100% on cpu-intensive apps. I've made some tests with john --test and transcode, wich are both multithreaded apps. For example if I launch transcode it takes between 50% and 55% cpu

Re: [AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

2006-08-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:09:35PM +0200, Laurent C wrote: Hello all, I can't get my athlon x2 processor working at 100% on cpu-intensive apps. I've made some tests with john --test and transcode, wich are both multithreaded apps. For example if I launch transcode it takes between 50% and

Re: [AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

2006-08-24 Thread Christian Walther
Hi there, On 24/08/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] How do you know the applications are running with two threads? Presumably you need to specify the amount of parallelism. Kris To make matters worse you can't even tell if an application running with several threads uses

Re: [AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

2006-08-24 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, August 24, 2006 2:10 pm, Christian Walther wrote: On 24/08/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] How do you know the applications are running with two threads? Presumably you need to specify the amount of parallelism. To make matters worse you can't even tell if an