On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Antonio Nunes wrote: > On 14 Nov 2010, at 16:25, Ken Thomases wrote: > >> -[NSProcessInfo activeProcessorCount] > > I see there is also processorCount. The docs totally don't explain what the > difference is. Is an active processor one that is available for processing, > but not necessarily being used, or is it one that is definitely in the > process of churning bits?
CPU cores can be disabled. For example, /Developer/Extras/PreferencePanes/Processor.prefPane can disable cores. -processorCount returns how many cores are present, -activeProcessorCount returns how many of those are enabled. Cheers, Ken _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
