Have you tried starting Nuke with -m 16 and trying the same test? 

This tells Nuke how many threads you want to use vs. how many cores your 
computer has. 

Cheers

On 2012-12-05, at 10:13 AM, Neil Scholes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Peter - thanks
> 
> Yes ext4
> 
> ok with your suggested setup - i get half of the cores being used ( 8 threads 
> out of 16) - and out of that half - only one of the threads is using a full 
> 100% - the rest are down by around 10%
> 
> This sound right?
> 
> 
> Neil Scholes
> 
> www.uvfilms.co.uk
> +44 (0) 7977 456 197
> 
> On 05/12/12 14:48, Peter Pearson wrote:
>> On 05/12/12 14:39, Neil Scholes wrote:
>>> ok -
>>> 
>>> im reading off my local raid 0 drive - which is fast enough to play back
>>> 2k DPX realtime.
>>> 
>>> But Im also rendering to that disc also.. is this the issue perhaps?
>> 
>> Most probably depending on what disk buffering is set up - I'm guessing the 
>> file system is ext4?
>> 
>> Best test is to use a new Nuke script, 4k checkerboard -> defocus node (with 
>> defocus set to 60 or something), view that in fullscreen and see if it uses 
>> more cores then.
>> 
>> That eliminates disk IO completely.
>> 
>> If it's still not using all the cores, put the mouse over the DAG and press 
>> x, then type "[set threads]" (without the quotes) and press OK.
>> 
>> It should return a message box with: Syntax error at "x", where x is the 
>> number of threads Nuke is configured to use.
>> 
>> Check that with how many cores you've got.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
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