Re: Mersenne: 50% CPU?

2003-11-11 Thread Matthias Waldhauer
Quantum Mechanic wrote: > I have an Intel 4 box from MDG, 1 CPU, 2.4GHz, 512MB > RAM, L1 8KB, L2 512KB. > > Prime95 is only getting 50%, with System Idle Process > taking 50%. > > It's currently running an LL test in the 20M range. > > Any ideas why it's only 50%? I think, there are 2 processes run

Re: Mersenne: 50% CPU?

2003-11-03 Thread Nathan Russell
--On Monday, November 03, 2003 5:08 PM -0800 John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: George Woltman wrote: At 04:35 PM 11/3/2003 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: I don't know if the affinity stuff will work in linux, however.. Mprime ignores the affinity settings in the ini files. We'll have to

Re: Mersenne: 50% CPU?

2003-11-03 Thread John R Pierce
George Woltman wrote: At 04:35 PM 11/3/2003 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: I don't know if the affinity stuff will work in linux, however.. Mprime ignores the affinity settings in the ini files. We'll have to add it when linux 2.6 is released. kernel 2.6 has been 'released' for some time now. h

Re: Mersenne: 50% CPU?

2003-11-03 Thread George Woltman
At 04:35 PM 11/3/2003 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: I don't know if the affinity stuff will work in linux, however.. Mprime ignores the affinity settings in the ini files. We'll have to add it when linux 2.6 is released. _ Uns

Re: Mersenne: 50% CPU?

2003-11-03 Thread John R Pierce
The standard way to identify is to have all physical CPU's listed first (0,1 in a dual CPU system) followed by the virtual CPU's (2,3) Hmmm, looks like you are wrong... /proc/cpuinfo shows cpu 0,1 as being one physical id, and cpu 2,3 as being the other.. # cat /proc/cpuinfo proc

RE: Mersenne: 50% CPU?

2003-11-03 Thread Aaron
> p4 with 400 or 533Mhz FSB do not support hyperthreading, *EXCEPT* the > p4-3.06/533 does. > > P4 with 800MHz FSB (these are the "C" versions) do support > hyperthreading. > > P4 Xeons all support HT. Ahh... Good info. > does > anyone know > which of the 0,1,2,3 CPUs are the physical ones?

RE: Mersenne: 50% CPU?

2003-11-03 Thread Aaron
> Not all P4's have hyper threading & not all motherboards > support it on top of that. So it requires a HT enabled CPU, > HT enabled Motherboard, & HT supported OS for HT to function. Hmm... Yeah, I thought about that but I guess I just assumed he knew he had a hyper-threading CPU. Isn't it

Re: Mersenne: 50% CPU?

2003-11-03 Thread John R Pierce
p4 with 400 or 533Mhz FSB do not support hyperthreading, *EXCEPT* the p4-3.06/533 does. P4 with 800MHz FSB (these are the "C" versions) do support hyperthreading. P4 Xeons all support HT. I have a question... gotta couple of dual P4/Xeon 2.8 servers, running linux 2.4.20 kernels... using t

Re: Mersenne: 50% CPU?

2003-11-03 Thread Shane Sanford
  I have a Pentium 4 processor and TM indicates an average usage of close to 100% CPU for Prime 95 - am I running 'multiple instances' without being aware of it? If so, how do I prevent this if it will degrade efficiency?   Not all P4's have hyper threading & not all motherboards support i

Re: Mersenne: 50% CPU?

2003-11-03 Thread ModularTao
In a message dated 11/3/2003 2:43:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does your CPU have hyper-threading for sure, and it's enabled in the BIOS? Task Manager will show one graph per CPU... If you only see a single graph, your OS only thinks it has one CPU (counting all virtual

RE: Mersenne: 50% CPU?

2003-11-03 Thread Aaron
Does your CPU have hyper-threading for sure, and it's enabled in the BIOS? Task Manager will show one graph per CPU... If you only see a single graph, your OS only thinks it has one CPU (counting all virtual and all real CPUs). I also assume you're using WinNT/Win2k/WinXP since Win98/ME doesn't s

Re: Mersenne: 50% CPU?

2003-11-03 Thread ModularTao
In a message dated 11/3/2003 2:04:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pentium 4's use hyperthreading to give you a 'virtual' second CPU. Don't bother trying to get another instance of Prime95 running on that 2nd CPU... It's virtual and while a lot of programs can benefit, the e

RE: Mersenne: 50% CPU?

2003-11-03 Thread Aaron
Pentium 4's use hyperthreading to give you a 'virtual' second CPU. Don't bother trying to get another instance of Prime95 running on that 2nd CPU... It's virtual and while a lot of programs can benefit, the extreme workout that Prime95 generates means you won't get a benefit from running a second