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maximina · Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 16

I have a script that creates a database on the fly. It's a rather large database and can take 10-13 minutes to complete this process. But I strongly believe it should be getting this done much faster. I spent an entire day reworking the code to only shave seconds from this time. THEN I checked task manager, and noticed that it always shows this process at 50% cpu utilization, even when there is plenty of idle processing available.

There are no delays in the script and I have "SetBatchLines -1", but the process still only consumes a maximum of 50% of the CPU at any given time.

So, is there another way to speed up this process? Is this 50% cap a built-in function of AHK that can be dissabled?

I've tried manually setting the priority higher than normal and compiling the script, but neither has an effect.

engunneer · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:29 am Post subject:

what kinds of commands are in your script? there may be other ways to improve speed.
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maximina · Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 16

engunneer · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:56 am Post subject:

that didn't answer my question.

do you have a dual core processor? that would limit your script to 50%
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maximina · Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 16

engunneer · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject:

it would be my guess that it only runs on one cpu.
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