Re: Increase WinXP/jre CPU usage?
Steve Brecher wrote:
I have a compute-intensive program with a simple console user interface.
While the program is running (number crunching), WinXP's Task Manager's CPU
usage for it never goes above 50%. I'd like to use the other half of my CPU
:) I've tried, via a separate SetPriority utility, setting the java (JVM)
process priority to 256 (max; real time) and all of its threads' priorities
to 15 (max). This causes the JVM's Base Prio entry in Task Manager to
become Real Time -- but CPU usage remains at 50%.
The code that is running does no I/O, only calculation.
Is there any possibility that you have a dual processor, possibly two
cores in one chip?
Utilization freezing at close to 50%, even at very high priority, for a
compute intensive job is typical of running a single threaded
application on a dual processor.
If that is what is going on, you should be able to run two copies of the
job (if it does not use too much memory) at the same time almost as fast
as one copy. If so, look at parallelizing the compute-bound portion of
the job.
What dominates the computation? Some algorithms are easier to
parallelize than others.
Patricia
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