Thanks for reading this. I'm relatively new to my Power Mac and to OSX. With Windows, I remember easily finding a CPU monitoring graph thing in the system controls. Is there something like that in OSX, or do you have to download software? If it's a download, does anyone have a recommendation, preferably a free download? Thanks.
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How can I monitor CPU usage?
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You could always take a look at Activity Monitor, which you'll find in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder. It'll show you your CPU usage, as well as other stuff like disk activity and system memory usage.
If you are running 10.4, you can download this widget onto your dashboard:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/istatpro.html
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/istatpro.html
Best thing to do is launch activity monitor, then (assuming you have your dock up and not set to hide) go to the view menu and select dock icon and select show cpu usage from the subsequent contextual menu. That way you have an always on cpu activity monitor.
This is all great guys, but I have a dual Xeon system. I'd like to have a graph that shows exactly what each of my eight cores is doing. I've been doing some video editing lately and I kinda get the feeling that the procs aren't all running to get the job done.