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goombot Author

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High cpu % in Activity Monitor with Sonoma.

I'm still trying to understand what the activity cpu% monitor is actually telling me. I have an M2 Studio Ultra, 24 core (16 performance and 8 efficiency cores) and 128 gig of RAM. I have 6 4k displays hooked up. I use all of them with ProTools and I have giant session up with not many backround apps running and my Protools CPU level was topping off at 1000% just at some spikes. Things are actually running but slower for sure with ProTools errors from time to time. My question is, what does that 1000% cpu with ProTools mean? Is it 100% per core? I know ProTools is now using all the cores as well. Just wondering if I can judge my machine's sluggishness on this number.

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Posted on Jul 1, 2024 8:13 PM

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Jul 3, 2024 6:51 AM in response to goombot

<< << it does all work, it just seems a tiny bit sluggish. >>. >>

Can you be more specific about what seems sluggish to you?

is it that mouse movements seem less responsive?

High cpu % in Activity Monitor with Sonoma.

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