Interface to shut down cores and/or processors?

2008-03-06 Thread Jay Reynolds Freeman
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 OSAtomicwhatever. I recall from somewhere, I think, that there is an mechanism somewhere, selectively to disable processor cores (or

Re: Interface to shut down cores and/or processors?

2008-03-06 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Install the CHUD tools, and the in /Developers/Extra/PreferencePanes you can find the processor pref pane that do what you want. I remeber there is also some CHUD header that allow you to do it programatically, but don't remeber where. Le 6 mars 08 à 19:12, Jay Reynolds Freeman a écrit :

Re: Interface to shut down cores and/or processors?

2008-03-06 Thread Sean McBride
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 OSAtomicwhatever. I recall from somewhere, I think, that there is an mechanism somewhere,