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/usr/bin/nice and Handbrake
This is really two questions... If a process is run with nice (/usr/bin/nice in the default OS X Mountain Lion installation) will it run processes in equivalent time compared to that process being run ...
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How can I put heavy load on my CPU for a long period of time?
How can I put my CPU under very high pressure for a long period of time? Are there programs for that that I can keep running ?
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Emulating lower speed CPUs on Mac mini
I would like to ask whether it is possible to develop OS X application (especially for Lion) on a Mac mini, being able to test how the performance would be on a lower speed CPU. For example: ...
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Process “ubd” high CPU usage
I noticed my MBP got really slow, which must be strange with SSD and 8GB of RAM.
So I opened the Activity Monitor to discover a process called ubd keeps its CPU usage very high, about 120% most of ...
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How can I simulate having a slow CPU?
I am almost done coding my webapp-game. It runs on all modern browsers. However, I want to establish some minimum requirements for it.
Thus, I need a slow Mac. However, I don't have access to a slow ...
