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Getting number of performance cores and efficiency cores of MacBook Pro in Terminal
The number of performance and efficiency cores differs wildly between all the variants of the Apple silicon M cpus and Apple usually does not list these even in the technical specs.
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What does the 'ps -o cputime' show in the TIME column?
The macOS ps gives the TIME like this:
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
0 50769 80598 0 9:09pm ttys000 0:00.00 egrep 96222|PID
666 96222 95653 0 10:09pm ttys006 0:00....
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Which logs and command line tools for finding processes that hog the macOS CPU?
As you can see, I have frequent CPU hogs:
I inspected my mac with several security tools from https://objective-see.org/tools.html, if any viruses or shady processes are being started up or running ...
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How to poll an app / process CPU utilization levels with fine granularity in Terminal?
I have a particularly problematic process in macOS that has a CPU utilization of 50-100% rather consistently. The process seems to have a somewhat high variability depending on several variables.
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How do I get information specific to CPU core via command
Suppose we have one CPU with 2 cores. I seek dynamic scheduling information such as Processes, IO time, IDLE Time, System Time as allocated time specific cores as opposed to aggregated or averaged to ...
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Does macOS have a command to retrieve detailed CPU information like /proc/cpuinfo on Linux? [duplicate]
Linux has a command to retrieve detailed CPU information using cat /proc/cpuinfo. Using this command, users can get CPU and CPU's core information like below.
processor : 0
vendor_id : ...
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Is there a way to see current CPU frequency in macOS from terminal (not Intel power gadget)
I am aware of these answers:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9948987/detect-current-cpu-clock-speed-programmatically-on-os-x
View the current clock Speed of a CPU in OS X?
Which refer to Intel ...
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Make terminal command use both CPU cores
This may be a bit of a easy question, but I couldn't find anything about it after googling a bit, sorry!
Is there any way to make a command use both of my CPU cores? I am currently processing some ...
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