Hi all,
So I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right seciton, but here it goes. So my logic board is broken and Activity Moniter shows that kernel_task (the os itself) is using between 500-600% CPU usage (I have 8 cores so this is about 63-75% CPU capacity)
For reasons I won't get into, I can't fix my computer for about a month. However, there are some higher-performance things I still would like to do. For example, play Dwarf Fortress. Now Dwarf Fortress is not multithreaded, so in theory, if the crazy-high kernel_task usage is restricted to 6 cores, and I can somehow guarentee that 1 core is mostly dedicated to Dwarf Fortress, then I could still play it to a degree. (It's possible that slowdown due thrashing and multi-core issues makes this impossible, but I'm not sure).
Is there some way I can run the program giving it precedence to one of the cores? Or on the other side, restrict kernel_task to the first 6 cores? I'm pretty sure the program itself has no mechanism for this, so it would have to be something from the mac side. I thought maybe virtualizing a machine and dedicating the cores to that machine might work, but the overhead might make the whole thing slower. I'm a technical user, so any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
Sam
So I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right seciton, but here it goes. So my logic board is broken and Activity Moniter shows that kernel_task (the os itself) is using between 500-600% CPU usage (I have 8 cores so this is about 63-75% CPU capacity)
For reasons I won't get into, I can't fix my computer for about a month. However, there are some higher-performance things I still would like to do. For example, play Dwarf Fortress. Now Dwarf Fortress is not multithreaded, so in theory, if the crazy-high kernel_task usage is restricted to 6 cores, and I can somehow guarentee that 1 core is mostly dedicated to Dwarf Fortress, then I could still play it to a degree. (It's possible that slowdown due thrashing and multi-core issues makes this impossible, but I'm not sure).
Is there some way I can run the program giving it precedence to one of the cores? Or on the other side, restrict kernel_task to the first 6 cores? I'm pretty sure the program itself has no mechanism for this, so it would have to be something from the mac side. I thought maybe virtualizing a machine and dedicating the cores to that machine might work, but the overhead might make the whole thing slower. I'm a technical user, so any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
Sam