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8 Core strenght
Hello all,
Here’s a question. After viewing the 8core processors doing their thing in an activity monitor, it did not look like they were even trying to achieve maximum horsepower. Question here, is there a way to allocate more processing power to certain apps and are they reliable or even worth the shot?
Let me know your thoughts.
I am running a MacPro 8core, 8 gig RAM, 2 750 drives
thanks!
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[Brett Clark] “is there a way to allocate more processing power to certain apps and are they reliable or even worth the shot?”
Applications MUST be written to use more then one processors. Most applications are built to only use one, a small number are built to use more.
It is not something you have control over.
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While it’s true that a program written to take advantage of more cores is best, it’s not a lost cause for the other applications. OSX does do a little bit of work to spread things out:
https://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/technology/multicore.html
Notice in there that while bragging that the OS splits things up they still mention that they’re re-writing apps to be multi-core aware. So it’s still better to have the apps be aware, but it’s not like the other cores are going totally un-used when they aren’t.
But either way, Brett, there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Word on the streets is that faster drives help with the bottleneck — think about it — if you’re increasing your processor speed 8 fold you’ll have to increase your read/write speed pretty substantially —
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