I suspect it might be because you have a CPU which supports
HyperThreading (HT). If this is the case then there is nothing to worry
about. My understanding (correct me if I am wrong), is that HT
essentially makes you computer think there are two CPUs (look in your
System properties). If you are just seeing 50% usage then it just means
that Stata does not support HT and so does not have any performance
boost as a result of this.
If you disable HT (which you can typically do in the BIOS) then I would
expect that CPU usage would shoot up to 100%. However, the actual
performance which you get will be the same.
Nomoreno wrote:
Hello all,
I was puzzled by one annoying thing of my computer and I don't know
whether I should fault Stata or my computer.
Basically, I am running computational intensive Monte Carlo
simulations on Stata under Windows XP on a brand new Dell Inspiration
laptop. Somehow my Task Manager shows that the computer is using 50%
of its CPU usage on this computer. It is weird because the same
program always use 100% of the CPU on my old machine.
I suspect it is the problem of my computer rather than my Stata,
though I am not 100% sure. Anyone has any ideas to release the
remaining 50% CPU power of my computer? I really appreciate your help!
Best,
Simon
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