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"av8r" <I
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know the dual processor question has been discussed at length on tis NG. I was
just wondering if there is any special setup in IV to allow (or make) the IDW
use the second processor?
We are running Win 2000 Pro. Nobody here has any
experiance with dual processor machines. I was jsut wondering if there is any
special setup required.
I know this sounds like a stupid question. But I
have looked and can not find any information
anywhere.
Kevin
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"av8r" <I
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know the dual processor question has been discussed at length on tis NG. I was
just wondering if there is any special setup in IV to allow (or make) the IDW
use the second processor?
We are running Win 2000 Pro. Nobody here has any
experiance with dual processor machines. I was jsut wondering if there is any
special setup required.
I know this sounds like a stupid question. But I
have looked and can not find any information
anywhere.
Kevin
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"Ashley Fulks" <
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A handy way to get IV to make the most use out of
your second processor:
CTRL+ALT+DEL to get to task manager
List all the processes
Right Click on each process and click on
"affinity"
change the affinity to only use the first
processor on all processes
when you get to inventor.exe, change it's
affinity to the second processor
Then IV will have it's own processor to crunch
on while the OS runs on the first.
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"av8r" <I
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know the dual processor question has been discussed at length on tis NG. I
was just wondering if there is any special setup in IV to allow (or make)
the IDW use the second processor?
We are running Win 2000 Pro. Nobody
here has any experiance with dual processor machines. I was jsut wondering
if there is any special setup required.
I know this sounds like a stupid
question. But I have looked and can not find any information
anywhere.
Kevin
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"Matt Stocking" <
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no, no. dont change any affinity's
the os handles that for you. it will breakup
the load evenly between the 2 cpu's. some programs dont work well this way,
thats why there is an affinity setting.
changing everything but inventor to 1 cpu would
make you machine act like a single cpu.
Matt
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"Hal Gwin" <
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Actually it works quite well. IV has been
more stable running on its own processor. I can count the number of
crashes I have had in IV since I got my new machine (about 4 weeks ago) on one
hand with enough fingers left over to hold a cup of coffee. When ever I
work on IDWs I switch IV back to both processors. All my other apps run
on the other processor, however the OS will not let you change the affinity
for some of the services that are running.
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"Matt Stocking" <
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no, no. dont change any affinity's
the os handles that for you. it will
breakup the load evenly between the 2 cpu's. some programs dont work well
this way, thats why there is an affinity setting.
changing everything but inventor to 1 cpu would
make you machine act like a single cpu.
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"gcooper" <
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Not to stray from the topic, but. Why are there
up to 31 processors showing (but grayed out) when setting afinity? I thought
NT could only support two? Any body got anything with more than two
processors?
gcooper
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"Hal Gwin" <
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Actually it works quite well. IV has been
more stable running on its own processor. I can count the number of
crashes I have had in IV since I got my new machine (about 4 weeks ago) on
one hand with enough fingers left over to hold a cup of coffee. When
ever I work on IDWs I switch IV back to both processors. All my other
apps run on the other processor, however the OS will not let you change the
affinity for some of the services that are running.
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Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Xenogen
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Dell 650
Dual 2.66GHz
Xeon
1.5GB DDR RAM
Quadro4 900XGL
nVidia 6.13.10.4072
Drivers
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"Matt Stocking" <
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no, no. dont change any
affinity's
the os handles that for you. it will
breakup the load evenly between the 2 cpu's. some programs dont work well
this way, thats why there is an affinity setting.
changing everything but inventor to 1 cpu
would make you machine act like a single cpu.
size=2>Matt
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"Matt Stocking" <
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win2k server supports 4+ processors.
Matt
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"gcooper" <
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Not to stray from the topic, but. Why are there
up to 31 processors showing (but grayed out) when setting afinity? I thought
NT could only support two? Any body got anything with more than two
processors?
gcooper
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"Hal Gwin" <
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Actually it works quite well. IV has
been more stable running on its own processor. I can count the
number of crashes I have had in IV since I got my new machine (about 4
weeks ago) on one hand with enough fingers left over to hold a cup of
coffee. When ever I work on IDWs I switch IV back to both
processors. All my other apps run on the other processor, however
the OS will not let you change the affinity for some of the services that
are running.
--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Xenogen
--
Dell 650
Dual 2.66GHz
Xeon
1.5GB DDR RAM
Quadro4 900XGL
nVidia 6.13.10.4072
Drivers
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"Matt Stocking" <
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no, no. dont change any
affinity's
the os handles that for you. it will
breakup the load evenly between the 2 cpu's. some programs dont work
well this way, thats why there is an affinity setting.
changing everything but inventor to 1 cpu
would make you machine act like a single cpu.
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"MechMan" <mechman> wrote in messageThe
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RAM limitation will become more trivial when 64bit software becomes
mainstream. Would be quite a CAD station where each CAD system had it's own
CPU to run on. That would be a workaholic's CAD
station.
MechMan
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