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CPU over 100% on export
I’m exporting video and the CPU reads 200-600%. This happens with AE and Speedgrade as well. I’m wondering since I never manually overclocked the CPU if this is something OS will regulate or do I need to monitor the temp? The footage I’m working with is 4K R3D based and it takes awhile to export. Is there a danger in running the processor this hard for that long?
My apologies if this has been answered in another thread. I was not able to find an answer.
15″ MBP retina
OS 10.8.2
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The readout itself seems like a bug with OSX. You can only ever run a CPU at 100%.
With that said, there is little to no danger in running your processor like that. If you’re computer isn’t adequately cooled then your CPU will throttle back (become slower) to allow itself to cool. All modern CPUs do this.
Angelo Lorenzo
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Welcome to the world of modern virtualized (i.e. hyper-threaded) CPU cores. This is how your machine is designed to run and Adobe has written code to take advantage of the added horsepower. So while you may only have 1 actual CPU core, it appears as 2 (or 3 or 4 depending on your machine) to the operating system. The software engineer can then take advantage of those extra “cores” to process material. Quite awesome actually! 😉
If you want to fall asleep or learn about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_affinityIf you want to monitor your machines progress, Activity Monitor is the free version. iStat Menu allows you to see everything going on inside your machine: https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
Now lay back and enjoy the speed!
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Thanks Ryan.
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Just looked it up, had no clue OSX does percentage per core. Windows does percentage total, including all cores. Learn something new every day.
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