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<blockquote data-quote="parasbuy" data-source="post: 1183570" data-attributes="member: 189066"><p>An update on this...</p><p></p><p>- added the Windows drive into the privacy pane of Spotlight so that it will not try to index the windows drive any longer. looking to shutdown Spotlight completely in case indexing is an issue at all</p><p></p><p>- plenty of headroom in the RAM, only 2GB of 16GB are being used</p><p></p><p>- plenty of bandwidth on the network connections</p><p></p><p>- disk activity is pretty clear, not hung-up on anything... i'm also not running any virtualization that i know of... no VM Ware, Parallels, etc. Brought my virtual memory down to 50KB, as well.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Still getting the SBBOD, though...</p><p></p><p>- I've also noticed that when i get the SBBOD, that sometimes it's the first core that maxes our, sometimes the 4th core, or the 3rd core, or the 6th.... the processing is not being distributed across multiple cores, but just on one core while the others are <10%</p><p></p><p>- in Activity Monitor, the top CPU% process is changing as you would normally expect it to... sometimes it's Firefox, Thunderbird, Lightroom, etc., depending on the app being run; it's usually running at <4% normally, occasionally going up to 10% if all cores are taken together</p><p></p><p>- by Threads... Firefox is 38 to 42 threads running the Daily Show, Thunderbird is 35, Lightroom 26, Songbird 21, Excel 15 at the moment as I'm unsuccessfully trying to load it up...</p><p></p><p></p><p>So, I'm not sure, but I think the question is... why are the applications processing not being loaded across multiple cores? shouldn't the OS being doing this automatically? is there any re-configs or installation I need to do to have Mac OS X distribute this loading better?</p><p></p><p>thx... would appreciate your inputs..</p><p></p><p>Paras</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="parasbuy, post: 1183570, member: 189066"] An update on this... - added the Windows drive into the privacy pane of Spotlight so that it will not try to index the windows drive any longer. looking to shutdown Spotlight completely in case indexing is an issue at all - plenty of headroom in the RAM, only 2GB of 16GB are being used - plenty of bandwidth on the network connections - disk activity is pretty clear, not hung-up on anything... i'm also not running any virtualization that i know of... no VM Ware, Parallels, etc. Brought my virtual memory down to 50KB, as well. Still getting the SBBOD, though... - I've also noticed that when i get the SBBOD, that sometimes it's the first core that maxes our, sometimes the 4th core, or the 3rd core, or the 6th.... the processing is not being distributed across multiple cores, but just on one core while the others are <10% - in Activity Monitor, the top CPU% process is changing as you would normally expect it to... sometimes it's Firefox, Thunderbird, Lightroom, etc., depending on the app being run; it's usually running at <4% normally, occasionally going up to 10% if all cores are taken together - by Threads... Firefox is 38 to 42 threads running the Daily Show, Thunderbird is 35, Lightroom 26, Songbird 21, Excel 15 at the moment as I'm unsuccessfully trying to load it up... So, I'm not sure, but I think the question is... why are the applications processing not being loaded across multiple cores? shouldn't the OS being doing this automatically? is there any re-configs or installation I need to do to have Mac OS X distribute this loading better? thx... would appreciate your inputs.. Paras [/QUOTE]
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