CPU Usage Windows

[Duncan Booth]

zaka07 at hotmail.com (Rad) wrote in 
news:ad381f5b.0206190233.4fa1bf58 at posting.google.com:

> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed that when I run Python script on 
> Windows 2k Pro
> Dual Intel Xeon (2.2GHz)
> CPU Usage for pythonw.exe is only 50%?!
<snip>
> Is it something to do with python not being able to use the power of
> both processors?
Yes, although if your scripts are suitably threaded, and some time is 
being spent outside of Python (reading files/querying databases) I think 
you should be able to get some usage above 50%.

If you can run two of your programs at the same time then CPU usage should 
go up to about 100%. Running 3 will probably be able to soak up any idle 
time still left waiting for disc or network responses. The single processor 
limitation only applies within each process.

-- 
Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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