CPU Usage Questions

[kalos72]

So I ran through the guide here:
http://isboxer.com/wiki/HOWTO:Tweak_your_framerate#Identifying_framerate_b ottlenecks

And I noticed that only two of my 4 CPU's are not being used much, like CPU 1 &2 at 90% while the others are under 10%. I was running 5 toons with Round robin CPU 1 dedicated and I was chugging like crazy.

Memory was maxed out too, I knew 8GB wasn't going to be enough.

Any thoughts?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

There have been two successful methods for getting around this sort of core-stacking problem:

1) assign all cores to all clients and let Windows figure it out.
2) Assign cores manually spreading them out across the clients yourself.

(2) is tougher as you have to keep in mind which are physical cores and which are virtual cores (as in the case of the i7). When I set mine up for manual core assignment, I assigned cores 1-4 to clients 1 and 2, cores 5-8 to clients 3 and 4, cores 3/4/5/6 to client 5 and cores 1/2/7/8 to dxNothing. I've had success with both but my teams are running manually assigned cores at the moment.