Benchmarking headaches.

[jasong]

Maybe you can do this in Linux, I can't seem to figure a way in Windows.

Basically what I'd like to be able to do is put every process except the one(s?) being benchmarked on one processor. I'm attempting to bench p-1 on Prime 95 at the moment, and I'm lucky if task manager says I have 45% available. To add to the headaches, Rosetta is set in the Preferences to use only one processor but, if it were human, I'd accuse it of testing limits, since it likes to randomly take from 20 to 98% of available power, apparently on it's own whim.

Any ideas?

[Digital Parasite]

The best way to benchmark is close everything that you can. Stop BOINC temporarily while you are benchmarking and close all other apps that you don't need. Configure Prime95 to set the affinity to one of your processors.

That should make Prime95 run on only one processor and stay there and Windows should schedule any remaining background processes on the other processor automatically.