I think recent OS versions stopped showing this. I haven't seen it for a long time. It used to be in iStat too, but that stopped working on my system too.HCMarkus wrote:Open the CPU Usage window Jim... find it under the "Window" menu in Activity Monitor.Gravity Jim wrote:My Activity Monitor doesn't show a number of cores available under "CPU." It just show the names of softwares that are using or recently used the CPU.
Wondering if DP 9.51's using virtual cores
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Re: Wondering if DP 9.51's using virtual cores
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Re: Wondering if DP 9.51's using virtual cores
No, actually, I just found it, and came here to say so. HCMarkus is correct.
If you double click on the CPU Usage panel, it opens up a big window that shows (on my machine) 24 CPU cores. I had no idea.
If you double click on the CPU Usage panel, it opens up a big window that shows (on my machine) 24 CPU cores. I had no idea.
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Re: Wondering if DP 9.51's using virtual cores
Right. Found it. Thanks. I don't know how anyone can keep up with this stuff.
Seems you have to load DP up pretty good before you see anything on the virtual cores, but they do show activity.
Seems you have to load DP up pretty good before you see anything on the virtual cores, but they do show activity.
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Re: Wondering if DP 9.51's using virtual cores
Hyperthreading has been around forever, mostly it's more food for thought on not overloading Kontakt instances with heavy duty libraries like Cinesamples that have a lot of automatic scripting, and not overloading individual tracks with too many plug ins, easier said than done...
I would be really really surprised if DP wasn't using virtual cores, since it's been around and the norm in chip architecture for the last ten years or so.
I would be really really surprised if DP wasn't using virtual cores, since it's been around and the norm in chip architecture for the last ten years or so.
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Re: Wondering if DP 9.51's using virtual cores
I can indeed vouch for DP using virtual cores, but you have to stress it pretty hard (and with more VI's than cores) before you see the virtual CPU meters start to move.
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Re: Wondering if DP 9.51's using virtual cores
The nice thing is, now that we have DP's pre-rendering working for us, it takes a bigger project to stress those CPU(s).
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Re: Wondering if DP 9.51's using virtual cores
One thing I always have found puzzling is the "Aux track issue" with PreRender, it also is the case in most instances with Freeze in most DAWs that it doesn't like Multi out instruments or Aux tracks etc. Busses tend to mess with it. Can't freeze those things typically. Same for PreRender NextGen PreGen or whatever MOTU want to call it in the next version!HCMarkus wrote:The nice thing is, now that we have DP's pre-rendering working for us, it takes a bigger project to stress those CPU(s).
So yeah, all my CPU use is in live tracks, Aux Tracks and multi out instruments, which makes you think about workarounds for that since say, a drum setup with FX on each track fed to a drum buss is all not going to get pre-renderd..
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Re: Wondering if DP 9.51's using virtual cores
I know...late for the party!Gravity Jim wrote:No, actually, I just found it, and came here to say so. HCMarkus is correct.
If you double click on the CPU Usage panel, it opens up a big window that shows (on my machine) 24 CPU cores. I had no idea.
I'm currently running El Capitan (10.11.6) and when I double click on the Activity Monitor with the CPU button engaged the window just gets larger?
And in the Activity Monitor>Window> "CPU Usage" is grayed out?
Trying to track down an occasional, but annoying, DP performance issue that seems related to the recent installation of El Capitan.
Thanks!
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