st: 50% CPU Performance, Stata or Computer?

[Nomoreno <nomorenook@netscape.net>]

Hello all,

I was puzzled by one annoying thing of my computer and I don't know 
whether I should fault Stata or my computer.

Basically, I am running computational intensive Monte Carlo simulations 
on Stata under Windows XP on a brand new Dell Inspiration laptop. 
Somehow my Task Manager shows that the computer is using 50% of its CPU 
usage on this computer. It is weird because the same program always use 
100% of the CPU on my old machine.

I suspect it is the problem of my computer rather than my Stata, though 
I am not 100% sure. Anyone has any ideas to release the remaining 50% 
CPU power of my computer? I really appreciate your help!


Best,
Simon

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