Terry,
I have spent weeks testing this very thing on my personal GC workstation.
(in preparation for Configure, Sale, and Advice to my Professional
Workstation Clients)
To answer your first question... Yes and No. I don't know of a way to
get Pro/E to launch to a single CPU core automatically every time you
startup, However, After Pro/E is launched, you can open the Task Manager,
find the xtop.exe process, Right Click, and Set Affinity to assign it to a
specific core.
For your second question... No, it doesn't make much difference. (at
lease on my GC systems. It may be different on others.)
During testing I would run for a week or so setting the xtop process to a
single core with Hyper-Threading enabled. Then another week or so with
Hyper-Threading disabled, then just let windows manage the processes and
Hyper-Threading off... and then with Hyper-Threading on again. I also ran
several OCUS test during each scenario along with my daily normal use of
Pro/E, E-mail, Web, FTP transfers, internet radio, Word and Excel stuff,
etc.
In the end, I found that the OCUS scores were all within about 10% of each
other. (sometimes faster, sometimes slower, with no real rhyme or reason).
and in general the overall daily machine performance seemed better when I
just let Windows do its thing...
That's been my experience. Maybe someone else has observed otherwise...
Good Luck
Bernie
Bernie Gruman
Owner / Designer / Builder
www.GrumanCreations.com
