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Posted by robal at Mar 4, 2013, 4:28:13 PM
Rendering does not use 100% CPU
Hi,

It may be an odd question (and maybe better suited to Sunflow's forum), but:

Does anyone experience low CPU usage during rendering ?
When I render, my CPU utilisation is at around 60% (javaw.exe process)
I thought it should be almost 100%, since Sunflow creates a thread for each core.

I've tested this on two machines:
- Core I7 860 (4 cores, 8 threads)
- Phenom II 950 (4 cores, 4 threads)

I'm wondering whether it's something funny about my machines (or my SH3D scene).

Anyone ?

Posted by Puybaret at Mar 12, 2013, 12:32:24 PM
Re: Rendering does not use 100% CPU
What Java version do you use?
Could you try with the installer version and not the Java Web Start version, to see if it behaves the same?
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator

Posted by robal at Mar 13, 2013, 1:53:00 PM
Re: Rendering does not use 100% CPU
Hi Emmanuel,

I've noticed it first with Beta 4.0 and JRE7, but before making this post I've downloaded standalone 3.7, and it happens there too.

Cheers

Posted by Puybaret at Mar 13, 2013, 1:58:18 PM
Re: Rendering does not use 100% CPU
Would you have any tool that would prevent a program to use all the CPU power?
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator

Posted by robal at Jun 19, 2013, 10:42:33 AM
Re: Rendering does not use 100% CPU
Hi Emmanuel,

I haven't used SH3D for some time recently.

Now I've downloaded version 4.1 and voila ! The issue is gone.
It now uses 100% of CPU to render on my machine and renders almost twice as fast.

Cheers,