Re: checking that all cpus are being used in my installation....

2016-12-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 December 2016 at 00:10, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 24/12/16 09:45, Michael Fothergill wrote: > >> Suggestions on performance testing the FX 8350 chip on this install are >> welcome. >> > > For an open source multithreaded CPU load with a handy benchmark mode, > install povray, then run:

Re: checking that all cpus are being used in my installation....

2016-12-24 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 08:45:29PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > ​Dear Folks, > > physical id : 0 > siblings : 8 > core id : 3 > cpu cores : 4 > > ​Does this seem reasonable? Yes. > Should the number of cpu cores be 8 rather than 4 (listed above)? It is 8. See the siblings field? cat /pr

Re: checking that all cpus are being used in my installation....

2016-12-23 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 24/12/16 09:45, Michael Fothergill wrote: Suggestions on performance testing the FX 8350 chip on this install are welcome. For an open source multithreaded CPU load with a handy benchmark mode, install povray, then run: povray -benchmark and compare the resulting time in seconds with: ht