[PD] Hyper-Threading on PD

Tim Blechmann TimBlechmann at gmx.net
Mon May 29 10:36:27 CEST 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 00:55 +0200, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> But Pd is actually two processes, the gui and the core, so you
> should  
> be able to run each on separate CPUs.  On Windows, the gui will show  
> up as "wish.exe" and the core as "pd.exe". 

hyperthreading limits the cpu utilization by simulating two processors
with 50% of the speed of the whole cpu.
it is very unlikely that the gui process takes as much cpu as the pd
process. so in a not very unlikely case, one virtual processor, running
the main pd process, will have a utilization of 100%, while the other
virtual processor is more or less sleeping ...

hyperthreading does make sense for multithreaded/multiprocess
applications, where there are two sets of threads/processes, which take
more or less the same amount of cpu speed, which is definitely not the
case with pd.

the first thing i was doing, when using pd on a hyperthreading p4 for an
installation, was to switch off hyperthreading. 

hth ... tim

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