MultiThreading not working with version 0.71.2

Hello,

I’m using xgboost in R/Rstudio desktop on windows 10, 4 cores 8 logical processor. Since I updated xgboost to 0.71.2, it suddenly became very slow. After investigation, it appears it wasn’t using multithreading/CPU properly: all cores were used, but it wouldn’t go beyond 50-60% CPU usage, and the nthread input in params for xgb.train (for example) had close to no impact on the performance. I rolled back to 0.71.1, it’s working fine again (for nthread=8, all cores being used, 100% CPU usage.

Did anybody noticed this issue as well? Any solution/fix for latest version of xgboost?

Many thanks,

Xavier

There is a related post Big data will break the nthread setting in R-xgboost 0.71.2.

Thank you, I will have a look