On 24/2/06 11:27, in article Xns97747487DD5CCrexxdeansaund@xxxxxxxxxxx,
"Rexx Magnus" <trashcan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Anyone with a macbook know if it's got some sort of nice regulation
feature for the heat? Does it go very quiet, and idle (ie very low cpu
usage) when it's not doing anything, but not sleeping?
Both my G4 Powerbooks have done this. Fans go full tilt when the machines
are busy, and die down when not.
[...]
Does OSX have something like this as part of it, or is there a utility
that can do this?
It all Just Works. I'd be surprised if they deliberately broke this on the
Intel Macs.
Oh, and another question, anyone with an intel mac got Corel Painter IX -
does it work, or is it broken?
[Ping macbook owners] Heat & idle temps ... Does it go very quiet, and idle (ie very low cpu... Only reason I'm asking is that my 1.8ghz laptop used to get rather noisy ... (uk.comp.sys.mac)
Re: Major Lagging-help! ...System Idle Process and the usage wavers between the two but much of ... the usage is by System-I have looked at everything else on task manager... than 5% when sitting idle (rather when it's SUPPOSED to be sitting ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
Re: "This results in a 15-20% performance hit for our program on the Mac." ... running our program can fully saturate each of the 8 CPUs - top usage of ... around 785-790% and almost 0% idle.... we can only get about 680% CPU usage with about 14% idle." ... The OS re-zeroes the memory when this happens; but a better malloc would be more reluctant to return memory to the OS. ... (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
Re: "This results in a 15-20% performance hit for our program on the Mac." ... running our program can fully saturate each of the 8 CPUs - top usage of ... around 785-790% and almost 0% idle.... we can only get about 680% CPU usage with about 14% idle." ... The OS re-zeroes the memory when this happens; but a better malloc would be more reluctant to return memory to the OS. ... (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
Re: "This results in a 15-20% performance hit for our program on the Mac." ... running our program can fully saturate each of the 8 CPUs - top usage of ... around 785-790% and almost 0% idle.... we can only get about 680% CPU usage with about 14% idle." ... The OS re-zeroes the memory when this happens; but a better malloc would be more reluctant to return memory to the OS. ... (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
