I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.8 on the current 2.4Ghz
8-core (dual) Mac
Pro. I have 24Gb of RAM, and that's not enough. When I bought the
system it came with 6Gb of RAM, and was actually slower than the
Rev.0 Dual 2Ghz G5 PowerMac I had, which had 7Gb of RAM, and was
running 10.4.x. It wasn't until I moved to 24Gb that the system was
faster, how pathetic is that! OTOH, I ran both CPU's on the G5 at
100% most of the time, while this system barely breaks a sweat most
months.
Interesting. My quad is usually running between 1-10% on any given core.
But then I'm mostly in Terminal.app and TenFourFox, and occasionally
Photoshop. The only high CPU thing it does frequently is act as a buildbot
overnight.
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