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IIRC, when I was at the Apple Store messing with the quad-core Mac Pro I could have Activity Monitor show all 4 cores. It showed them in the vertical bar graph in blue. I'd like to do that with mine, just to see what I can throw at it (and it's pretty!!).
I've looked through the preferences, and all I can manage is the old-school looking green dot-matrix graph.
Any ideas?
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Click and hold on the Activity Monitor icon in the Dock. You should see a menu pop up, and the second item as "Dock Icon >". Select "Show CPU Usage".
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I've got that much, but it only has 1 bar (representing the combined 8 cores, I guess). What I'm trying to accomplish is THAT graph with 8 bars on it, either in the dock or a floating window.
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[quote BillMac]I've got that much, but it only has 1 bar (representing the combined 8 cores, I guess). What I'm trying to accomplish is THAT graph with 8 bars on it, either in the dock or a floating window.
I don't have an 8 core to try, but on a 2 core, I am seeing two bars in the dock, one for each CPU in the Dock (BTW: This is on Tiger). And in the floating window I also see two bars.
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I'm using Leopard 10.5.1 and it only shows 1 bar. Maybe that's a new "feature"???
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i'm on leopard 10.5.1 and I can get it to display all 4 of my cores (macpro) by following GGD's instructions
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Maybe try to find the preference/plist file for Activity Monitor and trash it. Seems like something weird on your system. If you have another user account, try logging in with that and see how it behaves there, and might give more of a clue that it's a preference file problem.
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Tried trashing the plist on both user accounts, still no joy. Maybe I just won't get to watch all 8 working.
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Window menu. Select "CPU Usage."
Edit: Whoops! You said you wanted it in the Dock icon. Sorry.
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Did you happen to install the CHUD Developer tools? And if you did, did you happen to open the Processor Preference panel, and disable 7 of the 8 cores? It's behaving as if you're running with just one core enabled.
What does System Profiler say for the number of Cores?
