How do I really stress my 14 Cores ?

[TheRealAlex]

Nothing I use daily even stresses my 4 Efficiency Cores. I’d like to utilize my 10 Performance Cores what can I use ?

 

[Bigwaff]

Nothing I use daily even stresses my 4 Efficiency Cores. I’d like to utilize my 10 Performance Cores what can I use ?

To what end? Why?

 

[LeeW]

Nothing I use daily even stresses my 4 Efficiency Cores.

It sounds like you have a device that is way overpowered for whatever you do. And what? You want your full money's worth? 🙂

 

[raythompsontn]

I’d like to utilize my 10 Performance Cores what can I use ?

Adobe Lightroom, import 2,000 photos, with Lightroom building smart previews. I can max my M4 Pro for over 5 minutes doing that task.

 

[SmOgER]

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[apostolosdt]

What about some Terminal command like “yes > /dev/null” repeated for each CPU core?

 

[MacPeasant123]

Consider doing distributed computing like BOINC:

• BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer. The BOINC app, running on your computer, downloads scientific computing jobs and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe.

• About 30 science projects use BOINC. They investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.

• The BOINC and Science United projects are located at the University of California, Berkeley and are supported by the National Science Foundation.

BOINC

BOINC is an open-source software platform for computing using volunteered resources

boinc.berkeley.edu

 

[apostolosdt]

Consider doing distributed computing like BOINC: [...]

Good suggestion; although the OP would like to stress and not simply use idle cores. Adobe-based DIP would do, but I still believe using Terminal would be easier. For example, every time a new Mac appears in their Store, I like "testing" it by running the Terminal bc command on a calculation 123456789^1234567... and check the machine's running time.

Ok, it's sort of show-off, I guess. 😂🤣

 

[monokakata]

The free video app Handbrake will use all your cores, if you give it some video to transcode.

 

[chown33]

What about some Terminal command like “yes > /dev/null” repeated for each CPU core?

Command line to paste into a Terminal window:

yes >/dev/null &

Repeat that line for each core. Or add a few extras to make sure nothing is left idle.

Each time that line runs, it starts a 'yes' process in the background. It does nothing but emit the text "y" to a null device (bit-bucket, endless data sink). Because it runs in the background, thanks to the ampersand, you can run other commands, such as another 'yes'.

After the computer is sufficiently warm, you can kill all those processes with this:

killall yes

For extra fun, use Activity Monitor to watch the Energy or CPU resources burning away like a thousand suns.