title: How to reduce CPU usage of a program?
body: <p>I wrote a multi-threaded program which does some CPU heavy computation with a lot of floating point operations. More specifically, it's a program which compares animation sequences frame by frame. I.e. it compares frame data from animation A with all the frames in animation B, for all frames in animation A. I carry out this intensive operation for different animations in parallel, so the program can be working on A-B pair, B-C pair and C-A pair in parallel. The program is using QtConcurrent and a "map" function which maps a container with motions onto a function. QtConcurrent manages thread pool for me, I am working on Intel Quad Core processor so it spawns 4 threads.</p>
  
  <p>Now, the problem is that my process destroys my CPU. The usage is 100% constant and I actually get a Blue Screen of Death if I run my program on a big enough set of motions (Page fault in non-paged area). I suspect that this is because my computer is overclocked. However, could this be because of the way I coded my program? Some very intensive benchamrking tools I used to test my machine's stability never crashed my PC. Is there any way to control how my program uses my CPU to reduce the load? Or perhaps I am misunderstanding my problem?</p>