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My Very Busy CPU

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Hmmm...I start a build and all eight of my cores gets busy - what's up with that? <g/>

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  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2010
    Excellent! I mean that your build process is using all cores. What IDE is that?

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    April 07, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2010
    The computer engineer in me wants to know whether there is enough cache and memory bandwidth to keep those CPUs fed or whether they are spending significant time stalled waiting on access to the main memory bus :-). But still, it's a cool picture!

  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2010
    Miha: No IDE; the screen shot is of a Win7 Gadget I found online.

  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2010
    Gergely: I explicitly tell my builds I have 9 cores (i.e., one more than I really have), based on the experience of others on my team who say builds run faster that way. Andrew: No idea, but they seem to run at full speed for quite awhile!