<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>The file reading operation might be happening in a thread, and therefore on a separate CPU.</div><div><br></div><div>.hc</div><br><div><div>On Mar 24, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Jaime Oliver wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">hello everyone, <div><br></div><div>big quotation signs,<br><div><br></div><div>I have a pix tracking patch that is giving me 200% load with the pd load meter patch, but seeing the fedora cpu meters i see the load distributed over several processors. the machine is a 3ghz quadcore and is running fedora 11. there does't seem to be any video freezes...</div> <div><br></div><div>check: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3XIomHgwo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3XIomHgwo</a></div><div><br></div><div>any ideas?</div><div>is this really working or is it an illusion? </div> <div>what should i expect of such an overload?</div><div><br></div><div>best,</div><div><br></div><div>J<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jaime E Oliver LR<br><br><a href="mailto:joliverl@ucsd.edu">joliverl@ucsd.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.realidadvisual.org/jaimeoliver">www.realidadvisual.org/jaimeoliver</a><br> <a href="http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/">www-crca.ucsd.edu/</a><br><a href="http://www.realidadvisual.org">www.realidadvisual.org</a><br><br>858 750 0924 (cel)<br>858 202 1522 (home)<br>9168 Regents Rd. Apt. G<br>La Jolla, CA 92037<br> USA<br> </div></div> _______________________________________________<br><a href="mailto:Pd-list@iem.at">Pd-list@iem.at</a> mailing list<br>UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.</div><div> - from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs</div></span> </div><br></body></html>