benjamindaniels21

I'm getting major CPU spikes and I'm not sure why. Here is an example of a patch that I've been running that has been a culprit. Let me know if you have any ideas about why this is happening.

My current setup:
2011 MacBook Pro
2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
4 GB ram


cpu-spikes-97-and-i-dont-know-why

check 'activity monitor' application to be found in the 'utilities'.

how is the %age for a clandestine 'kernel_task' doing?

It's at around 2% on average. I've noticed that my overall CPU usage goes down when I'm running Max in 64-bit mode. However, when I use the jit.qt.movie or iMovie objects to play video I'm getting usage around 40% PLUS this "QTKitServer-(612)Max" hogging another 60-70%. Any ideas about that? Thanks so much!

There are a lot of parameters responsible for 'processing power'.

For video you may look into the compression specs of you source material or go the gpu road with openGL.

https://cycling74.com/forums/optimization-of-patch-i-need-a-better-frame-rate/

As a general rule I would say: if the framerate is as desired and the audio is not cracky, you're fine. don't waste too much time on tuning your patch.

If you run into concrete problems, try to find your bottlenecks and ask more specific questions here.

There are a lot of parameters responsible for 'processing power'. 

For video you may look into the compression specs of you source material or go the gpu road with openGL.
Read more about streamlining here:

https://cycling74.com/forums/optimization-of-patch-i-need-a-better-frame-rate/ 

As a general rule I would say: if the framerate is as desired and the audio is not cracky, you're fine. don't waste too much time on tuning your patch.
If you run into concrete problems, try to find your bottlenecks and ask more specific questions here.


Also turning on "Show CPU Usage" in the View menu might help to spot a bottleneck.

CPU Spikes (97%) and I don't know why.