Can someone who owns an 8-core mac pro attatch a screenshot of what the processor usage bar graph in Activity Monitor looks like? I can't imagine it putting in another "row" of processors - since my 4 core mac pro is already squished enough....
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Activity Monitor CPU?
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Those are some really nice idle cores you've got there.
I know right. Haha. Using Compressor is when it's most fun.
I know right. Haha. Using Compressor is when it's most fun.
LOL! I agree, I came from an imac 2.8 extreme, when I was using visualhub its 2 cores were maxed out.
When using visualhub with the 8core you can see its really working
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LOL! I agree, I came from an imac 2.8 extreme, when I was using visualhub its 2 cores were maxed out.
When using visualhub with the 8core you can see its really working
Does this show that visual hub can use all 8 cores to tear through one file? I didn't think a file could have more than a single core operating on it.
I think you misunderstand what multithreading is all about.
You don't think in terms of files when you get down to the CPU level of a computer. It is just data and making sure that the data is split into threads (even the idea of threads is misleading at a low level) so that each core takes one thread of a program and then just processes the data that that thread gives the core. There is no such thing as a file as far as a CPU is concerned.
LOL! I agree, I came from an imac 2.8 extreme, when I was using visualhub its 2 cores were maxed out.
When using visualhub with the 8core you can see its really working
how big is the test.avi file?