Samelot

With my new comp, I've been pretty attentive to my cpu and energy usages of the programs that I use. Oddly, I notice that Max's cpu usage is far higher than most other programs I use, even when I'm actually doing things in them..

My cpu % usage for Max seems to stay around 15% and the energy impact reads around 60-70. Both of these numbers, not sure how or if they are correlated, fluctuate quite a bit.

My comp is brand new, solid state drive and 16 gb ram laptop. Should I attribute this to Max or to Maverick, and is this normal?

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I can confirm your observation. The CPU usage on my macbook pro is about the same when Max is "idle". I am working on a much older machine (Mid 2012, only 4GB ram no SSD, OS X 10.9.2). CPU usage in the activity monitor is around 14% with overdrive on and around 12% without overdrive. My guess is that even without a patch open the Max scheduler is running as soon as Max starts...

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