Activity Monitor CPU?

[pianodude123]

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....

 

[johny5]

I wondered this myself, but mine is an 8 core (got the other day) and its just 1 bar!?

Actually just messed around with it, in the dock it displays one bar, as it does when you open activity viewer. It is only when you click the cpu graph that it opens up an 8 bar graph.

 

[pianodude123]

wow thats really neat...

Thanks for sharing!!!

 

[darthraige]

istat menu also works great. Shows all 8 cores as well. 🙂

 

[deathshrub]

Those are some really nice idle cores you've got there. 🙄

 

[darthraige]

Those are some really nice idle cores you've got there. 🙄

I know right. Haha. Using Compressor is when it's most fun. 😀

 

[johny5]

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 😉

 

[aaronw1986]

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.

 

[johny5]

It must do as thats all what I was running at the time.

I must say encoding things now are rather rapid!
I purchased a 23" ACD today so now I am in apple heaven 😀

 

[Cromulent]

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.

 

[richard.mac]

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?

 

[johny5]

i thought someone might ask as the time to recode it wasnt very long 🙂 its 690mb and I think it was a xvid before