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  1. July 12th, 2008 #11
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    Re: 14%-18% CPU usage while idle?

    ok...now i have another mystery i wanna solve...

    in this screenshot...im running superpi...but only one core is getting used...why is that?
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    Re: 14%-18% CPU usage while idle?

    The application must be single threaded. Applications have to written a certain way to utilize more than one core. There may be a command line option to make it utilize more than one core though.
    Don't try to make something "fast" until you are able to quantify "slow".
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    Re: 14%-18% CPU usage while idle?

    ok...i gotta find it...ON TO GOOGLE!
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    Re: 14%-18% CPU usage while idle?

    [EDIT]
    Bah, forget it...
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