On 10/18/2011 3:36 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:
What happens if you either:
1. disable HT in the bios

Intel says i5-2400 has no HT:
Processor Number        i5-2400
# of Cores      4
# of Threads    4

and BIOS has no HT disable knob

2. limit the threads to 4?

ffmpeg -threads 4 (sched_ule):

real    3m19.379s (with -threads 0 was 2m52.711s)
user    6m50.107s (with -threads 0 was 6m50.310s)
sys     0m1.507s

top -H:
CPU:  0.0% user, 55.8% nice,  0.4% system,  0.0% interrupt, 43.8% idle
Mem: 136M Active, 884M Inact, 498M Wired, 84K Cache, 409M Buf, 2339M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
1178 root 52 20 255M 140M uwait 1 1:05 51.17% ffmpeg{ffmpeg} 1178 root 103 20 255M 140M CPU0 1 0:59 37.60% ffmpeg{ffmpeg} 1178 root 52 20 255M 140M uwait 3 0:59 37.16% ffmpeg{ffmpeg} 1178 root 52 20 255M 140M uwait 3 0:59 34.38% ffmpeg{ffmpeg} 1178 root 52 20 255M 140M uwait 2 0:54 33.59% ffmpeg{ffmpeg} 1178 root 102 20 255M 140M CPU2 0 0:46 32.37% ffmpeg{ffmpeg}
 1171 root      20    0 67992K  5516K select  2   0:00  0.00% sshd


regards,
Urmas Lett

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