I believe that is due to HyperThreading. -- Bruce Carter, Center for Creative Computing University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
On 5/9/12 10:20 AM, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E]" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, >My Mac Pro has a pair of quad-core CPUs, but both iStat Menus and >MenuMeters show a bar chart with 16 bars rather than the expected 8 bars. > Is this a Lion thing? There were only 8 bars under Snow Leopard. Why >does Lion seem to think I have 16 cores? >Even Activity Monitor seems confused. It only shows 1 (cumulative) bar >in the icon, of course, but yesterday when I was doing something >intensive, the activity panel showed a percentage over 1000%, so it also >appears to be acting as if I have 16 cores (or else the percentage would >never exceed 800%). >I doubt that any of this is important, but I am curious. Any thoughts? >Thanks, _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
