Ya, in my tests, it's much better to run 1 or 2 workers max. ~Sean
<http://www.skyseek.com> class *Sean_Thayne* extends Developer { public $skype = "sthayne23"; public $gTalk = "[email protected]"; public $url = "www.skyseek.com"; } On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > Are the numbers the same for both FF and Chrome? Chrome may just have > better optimization for workers. Chrome may have discovered that sharing > between multiple processes is better than multi-threading for Workers. > > I'm not an expert on Workers and multi-threading, but I always thought > that there is little advantage, and potential a disadvantage, of running > more threads of equal priority than there is CPU/Core availability. > > FF is known for having overhead from other FF plugins. The difference in > performance you are seeing could be from that as well. > > HTH, > -Alex > > On 2/4/14 8:02 AM, "Marcus Fritze" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Thanks for the quick response. > > > >Activity Monitor shows mostly 175 - 185 % and sometimes a max of 196 %. > > > >But my overall CPU usage is about 22%. > > > >Am 04.02.2014 um 16:51 schrieb Alex Harui <[email protected]>: > > > >> What does the os tools show for cpu usage? Maybe FF doesn't spread work > >> to more than one or two cores. > >> > >> -Alex > >> > >> On 2/4/14 7:38 AM, "Marcus Fritze" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Ok, I have a main application and a worker. > >>> > >>> The worker is for very CPU intensive work. But I have a lot of "work" > >>>to > >>> do at the same time. > >>> So I run multiple worker (actually the same Worker-class) at the same > >>> time. > >>> > >>> In Chrome everything is working fine and the work is done in some > >>>seconds. > >>> Chrome starts a "Google Chrome Helper" process for every worker. > >>> > >>> But In Firefox, it seems there is only one "Firefox Plugin Process" and > >>> when I have 3 or 4 worker > >>> at the same time, the main app slows down. > >>> > >>> Any suggestions? > >>> > >>> Info: my system Mac OS X 10.9 and the latest Firefox and Flash Player > >>>12 > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> > >>> Marcus Fritze > >> > > > >
