Re: st: Stata and CPu usage

[Nick Sanders <sandersn@stanford.edu>]

Hello Tunga,

I'm not a Windows user myself (so I can't verify this is how Windows Task Manager expresses CPU usage), but this is my guess:

1) The total processor power available to you, given a Core 2 Duo, is X
2) The power of one of those two processors is then X/2
3) Stata/SE can only use one processor at a time (given it isn't Stata/MP)
4) 50% is actually Stata/SE using the full power of one of your two processors

Might that be the case?

-Nick

On May 28, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Tunga Kantarcı wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7700 2.4 Ghz system with 32 gm ram and
> 32 bit operating system. I use Windows 7. I use Stata/SE.
> 
> I am using the lpoly command and the calculations take too long. I
> happened to look at the CPU usage at Windows task manager and realized
> that the CPU usage of Stata/SE does not exceed 50%.
> 
> I wonder why this is the case and if there is a way to increase the CPU usage?
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