Re: [Avid-L2] OT: MC and Activity Monitor

 

For those interested in the mac Activity monitor -

Played around some more with it and found some features I didn't
know about.

If you click on the icon in the dock you get several options
including changing the dock icon to display a specific monitor or
having that monitor as a small window on the desktop, either of
which is kind of handy if you want to keep an eye on things while
working.

I checked out the CPU display which shows how much each core is
in use (in the four core i7 it displays eight cores because of
hyper-threading.) Playing back the DNxHD 220 files on the Avid
shows activity in all eight, none near full. I guess that means
the 89% from below must be a percentage of some total larger than
100%, (maybe 400%, 100% for each actual core on the i7?)

D.

On Mon, May 21, 2012, at 04:10 PM, Dan McCabe wrote:

I was looking at a system running MC 6.0.1.1 on a 2.2 GHz i7 MBP
with 8
Gigs of RAM playing DNxHD220 files through a Sonnet Tempo Pro
esata
card.
Out of curiosity I opened up Activity monitor. When I played a
clip on
the source side (not a sequence, just a source clip) the CPU use
shot up
to 89% and then down to the about 80%.
Meanwhile the graphic at the bottom rolled along showing about a
5% user
CPU level.
I tried a similar test on a Mac Tower and got the same kind of
reading.
Is MC really using almost 90% of the CPU to playback DNxHD 220?
Why are the readings not reflected in the Activity monitor
graphic?

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