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From: Chris Stanley <cstanley@cctv.org>
To: pthreads-win32@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Max 50% usage on dual-core CPU
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4738B89C.9020207@cctv.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4738B06B.20206@cctv.org>

I got a reply back from the other list and it was an ffmpeg issue with 
an easy fix.  Sorry for the bother, thanks!

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Chris Stanley wrote:
> I'm working with ffmpeg which uses Pthreads-w32 in Windows XP Pro SP2. 
> I've used both Pthreads-w32 2.8.0 and 2.9.0 (which as far as I can tell 
> doesn't exist, but is bundled with the Celtic Druid ffmpeg binaries 
> nonetheless).
> 
> When using a single-core system (Celeron 2.5Ghz), everything is fine and 
> ffmpeg/Pthreads-w32 eagerly uses 97-99% of my CPU.  But when I move the 
> same code to a dual-core system (P4 3Ghz), it will never exceed exactly 
> 50% of the CPU.  By default it uses both cores at about 20/30.  If I 
> change the affinity and restrict it to one core, then it uses the whole 
> thing but again won't exceed exactly 50% of the total CPU.  I get the 
> same results reading from and writing to a flash drive, so I don't think 
> it's an I/O bottleneck.
> 
> I'm posting this to the ffmpeg list as well, but it seems like this 
> could be something related to Pthreads-w32.  Does anyone have any 
> thoughts about what might be going on?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-12 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-12 20:33 Chris Stanley
2007-11-15 19:22 ` Chris Stanley [this message]

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