Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a utility on my Mac called iStat menus. One can configure it how one likes but I have permanently in the top menu bar the processor load, CPU temperature and network speed, amongst others. I find it very useful, probably the best utility I have ever bought. One can get an app for iThingy which allows remote monitoring of the computer too, but I hardly use the app. I would be lost without it! It doesn't make the computer faster, but shows at a glance what is going on if it slows down. BTW it shows how mind numbingly inefficient Flash is. Just having a couple of Flash adverts on a web page shows significant CPU activity. Some web sites have the processors all running flat out and fans at max, just with screen candy. No wonder flash flattens the battery of my laptop faster than any other programme, and the CPU gets hot and fans come on max too. I can see why the iPad doesn't have it, probably more than halve battery life. cheers, Frank On 12 Aug, 2012, at 08:04, John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz> wrote: > It is far slower to work on D800E (lossless compressed) 40MB files than M9 > (uncompressed) 36MB files. > > I have a reasonably grunty machine so I went looking at what the bottleneck > is...... > > Mid-2009 Mac Pro (2x 2.26 quad-core Intel 5520 CPU) was running at over > 1300% CPU (16 threads available) briefly while doing minor changes, be > aware > of this limitation if thinking of upping your camera MP ;-) > > john > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information