rendering capacity

[jcnoveron]

Hi There!
I am working with MAYA 6 and when rendering with MAYA Vector I notice that only 25% of the CPU goes to work/ Why is this if I have a dual CPU PC?

[pbman]

i think u can only tell mental ray to use both cores or both cpu's

in task manager u can give it higher piority so that more processer will be used by it

[erictacti]

Another thing to note is that sometimes, the PC won't use all of your cores for some reason. For instance, I have a dual core dual Xeon Workstation here at work, and sometimes a render will use all 4 cores at like 95%. But, other times, it will only use a fraction of all 4, or even just 2 of them. And, even toying around with the affinity and the priority does nothing. Which sucks, but oh well. I don't know what causes it, and I've done a ton of research on it.