On 3/6/08 10:12 AM, Jay Reynolds Freeman said:

>I have a shiny new Mac Pro and am chasing some bugs in parallel
>applications that may have to do with things like cache flushing,
>memory barriers and OSAtomic<whatever>.  I recall from somewhere, I
>think, that there is an mechanism somewhere, selectively to disable
>processor cores (or perhaps entire processors, in the case of the Mac
>Pro).  Such a mechanism would be very useful for my tests.
>
>If there is a Cocoa interface to this mechanism, perhaps someone could
>tell me what it is?

Too low level for Cocoa I think.  Assuming you're on 10.5, take a look at:

/Developer/Extras/PreferencePanes/Processor.prefPane

It can turn off CPUs.

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Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada

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