On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/11/13 9:07 AM, Bill Waggoner wrote: >> >> I have a new Mac Mini server with the following Hardware Overview: >> >> Model Name: Mac mini >> Model Identifier: Macmini6,2 >> Processor Name: Intel Core i7 >> Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz >> Number of Processors: 1 >> Total Number of Cores: 4 >> L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB >> L3 Cache: 6 MB >> Memory: 4 GB >> Boot ROM Version: MM61.0106.B03 >> SMC Version (system): 2.8f0 >> Serial Number (system): C07[snip]WYN >> Hardware UUID: E20F62[snip]70F2B >> >> This shows, as I believe, that I have one CPU and 4 cores and yet Fink >> reports that I have 8 CPUs/Cores when I configure it. Is it, perhaps, >> counting Threads (or some such) instead of Cores? >> >> I do notice that when I run Activity Monitor and select Show CPU >> History it does show 8 bars. >> >> I've set it to 4 in any case so it probably doesn't matter what Fink >> thinks but I was just curious why the discrepancy ... >> >> Bill W >> >> > > fink uses "sysctl -n hw.activecpu" to get the number of active CPUs. If > that output isn't right, blame Apple. >
I went poking around with sysctl and found: hw.packages: 1 hw.physicalcpu: 4 hw.logicalcpu: 8 hw.activecpu: 8 Packages agrees with the number of processors I have and physicalcpu agrees with the number of cores the processor has and I guess that logicalcpu & activecpu is the total thread count. I'll stick with 4 as that's plenty fast on this machine. Thanks! Bill W ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
