Thanks for all the advice. Changed the threads to 4 and tandem searches are buzzing along! Will try upping to 8, I think the system has enough memory to handle it.
Thanks Zac On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:31 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey Zac, > > We are running X!Tandem on a 2 Quadcore CPU server, not under Windows > 7, however, but under Ubuntu server 64 bit. We used the spectrum > threads command from X! tandem to increase the number of threads to 8 > (http://www.thegpm.org/TANDEM/api/st.html). This allowed full use of > all 8 cores. Maybe you should give it a try with a small file. Don't > set it higher than 4 though, this will slow down searches on your > Quadcore. > > Maik > > On Jan 25, 6:49 am, Zac <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am using windows 7 64 bit on a quad core PC. I noticed that when I > > used the tandem packaged with TPP, only 15% of the CPU was used during > > the search. I thought I would try downloading X!Tandem Cyclone which > > supports 64bit to get full use of the processing power. > > > > Is this the best way to go for 64 bit? > > > > thanks > > > > Zac Mc Donald > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "spctools-discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<spctools-discuss%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spctools-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss?hl=en.
