Processor Performance??

I read a discussion on mac gaming (http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68adc78a) It says that for certain games, an idea is to change something called processor performance. I am currently on my dads G4 Power mac as my imac has not arrived yet but in system preferences i cannot find anything about the processor (i even did the search using spotlight in system pref.) is this something that is only accessable on the G5 imac or do i find it somewhere else?
Thanks in advance
Adi

This option was added to the operating system for laptops. Setting the performace to lowest results in increased battery life and less heat. It only shows up for G5s and it's usually only changed once on a desktop system.
I'm waiting for "ultra-fastest" and "frackin-fastest" to be added to the drop down menu in 10.5

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Infamous WHINE & lack of Processor Performance settings?

I have owned all of the Al books from the 1ghz 17" to the 1.67 17". I noticed the whine first on the 15" 1.25 AlBook 2 yrs ago. During that time we were able to throttle the Processor settings ourselves via the Energy Saver setting in System Preferences. As of the release of the 1.67 AlBooks that option is no longer available. When the Processor Setting was set to Automatic, the AlBooks ALAWYS had the WHINE & HISS from under the keyboard in the same spot the MacBook Pro's demonstrate today.
I called Apple Tech support this afternoon and spoke to a tier 2 "guy". I asked about Speedstep / Processor throttling and that option being taken away from us - his reply was that the new processors control that now and are able to go from reduced settings to highest in a fraction of a second never noticed by the user. WRONG ANSWER. What he's telling me is the Processor is ALWAYS set to AUTOMATIC and we can't do anything about that. While his answer may be true, these units have the same whine & hiss as the previous AlBooks when set to Automatic. THIS IS A PROBLEM.
I do want that option BACK on my portable!!! It was nice knowing that if I was only wanting to watch a DVD on battery power that I could ensure low power consumption by going to the Energy Saver and setting the processor performance to "Reduced" or to always have it set to Highest if so desired. I have never been able to set the processor performance to Automatic and NOT hear the whine & hiss.
I have the 2.0ghz MacBook Pro w/ 2g RAM. I do not hear the whine whie the unit is plugged in - but on batter power it's very very loud. I could be wrong, but past experiences have proven that the automatic setting which WE ALL HAVE BY DEFAULT on our MacBook Pro's will produce this unwanted noise. This is an amazing laptop. But I am feeling a bit gimped having those settings taken away.
PJ
MacBook Pro & Dual 2.7 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Since when does people saying something is so make it so? I'm curious; exactly how many people does it take to repeat some random statement before it automatically becomes fact?
And no, what I said was not meant as a flame. I just wanted to explain why it is hard to take the post seriously. Apparently you took what I said in the opposite way I'd intended. That being said, I did not mean it that way, so sorry for any offense.
Of course a support forum is going to be filled with posts about problems. What would you say is more likely to compel you to make a thread in a support forum, a problem (of any sort), or no real reason at all, just for kicks? Granted , when a product first comes out, there will be a few "I love my MBP!" type threads, but those go away after awhile. The complaints remain, because, let's face it, life is full of problems, and computers have more than their share as a whole.
The reason it's important that this is your first post is that is isn't very hard to imagine people registering to stir up controversy, goof around, or incite even more inflammatory responses (read: troll), when ANY new product is released. My post wasn't accusing you of any of this, merely trying to explain (beforehand) some responses you may get later on.
My only advice is that if you are unsatisfied with your machine, exchange it for a new one. If a noisy screen/processor/speaker is enough to make you reconsider your purchase entirely, then perhaps it would be wiser to wait until this particular issue has been ironed out on Apple's end (certainly not a terrible idea).
I do understand where you are coming from with the processor settings, by the way, and I do miss those settings at times, mostly because I'm a control freak. However, I am assuming that the MBP uses Intel's speed-step technology, and I don't know of a way to manipulate that, so it looks like that little feature is gone. It very well could be at the root of the noise issues, but at this point, that is only speculation.
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No Automatic Processor Performance Setting

I am the new owner of a refurbished 17" Powerbook G4, 1.67GHZ, Dual Layer Superdrive. On my previous Powerbooks, in the energy saver control panel there always was the option for Automatic Processor Performance Setting, where one could set the processor to reduced, automatic or highest. On this new machine, there is no Automatic Processor Performance Setting! Any explanation?
Powerbook G4 17" 1.67GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2GB RAM, 160GB 128MB VRAM DL SuperDrive

Thanks again, I found the answer in the Developer notes here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/DeveloperNotes/Macintosh_CPUs-G4/17inchPowerBookG4/1Overview/chapter_2_section_6.html#//a ppleref/doc/uid/TP40003166-CH205-TPXREF115.
Powerbook G4 17" 1.67GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2GB RAM, 160GB 128MB VRAM

[help] can't find "processor performance" option in the energy saver

hello....i've just bought my new macbook white 2.0 Ghz. the Mac OS version is 10.5.6
*i can't find any option to change my processor performance* on the "energy saver preferences"....here is the screenshot
it's odd when compared to the screenshot from apple support page
http://km.support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECAREALLGEOS/HT3092/HT30923b.jpg
please help me on this, i can't perform image editing well when the battery get low....thanks a lot

On PowerPC machines, there is an option specifically for Processor Performance, while on Intel machines, the only option is for the entire computer - Better Energy Savings, Normal, Better Performance, or Custom. These can be selected for both on power adapter and battery and affect not only the processor, but also the display, sleep, and hard drive.
On 10.5.6, part of the update removed the option to change power settings from the menu bar drop-down menu - perhaps that is what you are looking at.

"Processor performance" preference change not taking?

I'm used to keeping my "processor performance" at "reduced" most of the time, unless I'm doing something cpu-intensive like encoding. Lately I've noticed that changing from "reduced" to "highest" (in preferences / energy saver / options) has no affect. (I can tell because my fans don't ramp up as they do when the processor is being taxed.)
Anyone else experience this?

NO, but I can speculate why. The power is more evenly distributed, like the PRAM, NVRAM. It really makes sense spreading the power around like OSx does by default.I think your new method is better for your system over the long hall.'''
Peace,
Ray

Processor Performance with Battery

Hi All,
When using the battery, is your processor speed / performance capped at all?
I was playing with iDVD the other day on battery and when the app was rendering the menus in real-time I noticed a significant stuttering... I havent tried with main power yet, but would of thought my spec machine could handle it...
Any thoughts?

When using the battery, is your processor speed / performance capped at all?
Check in System Preferences -> Energy Saver. Next to "Settings for" choose "Battery" in the drop-down menu. Then click on the Options tab. Towards the bottom there should be a Processor Performance setting, which by default is (at least for other notebooks) set to "Reduced."
Changing that to "Highest" is a good option if you're doing work that requires the best possible processor performance.
And there are other options in the Energy Saver preferences that you might want to take a look at while you're there. Just keep in mind that anything you change in the Battery sections will also affect battery life.
You can also choose some basic Energy Saver settings from a menu when you click on the battery icon in your menubar.
Note that I'm still using a PowerBook and can't check this on a MacBook Pro... yet. (Tomorrow I'll be able to. ;-))

Jdeveloper dual core processor performance problem

I have a dual core 2.4 ghz processor and 2 gig of ram and Im running Jdevloper 9.0.5.2 and my performace is terrible. Other developers in the company have non-dual core processors and they can start up in debug mode using the Jdeveloper embedded oc4j our application in 10 seconds where it takes me 4 min!!!!! It is a struts,ejb web application. Is there anything I can do to help in debug mode??? cheers.
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Hi Bernard,
Which version of McAfee are you using?
On my (personal) laptop, I'm using McAfee VirusScan 9.0.10. I don't frequently run JDeveloper on this laptop, but when I do, it's not experiencing signficant startup delays (it's a very low power machine: PIII 650 512Mb)
McAfee VirusScan seems to have very few configuration options (noticably different from Norton, which I use on my corporate desktop machine). I specifically remember changing the "File Types to Scan" option to "Program files and documents only". You can get to this by right clicking the "M" notification area icon, VirusScan->Options menu, Advanced button on the ActiveShield page.
In Norton, I think I have it configured so that it only scans files on write rather than on read. I also exclude directories which contain jdeveloper installs or other large Java apps (although scanning only on write elliminates most of the performance problems anyway and still leaves your system reasonably secure).
The easiest way to convince your MIS dept that the virus checker is the source of your problems might be if you ask them to allow you to turn it off in order to test the difference it makes to performance. It's a reasonable request to make if you're trying to elliminate possible causes for the slowdown (from the description you gave, it does sound like the AV upgrade is the first place I'd start looking).
If the virus checker is the source of your problems, you'll probably be seeing massive slowness in most large Java applications that have a large number of JARs on their classpath.
Thanks,
Brian

Multi-Processor Performance

I would like to know what performance gains I might expect from moving our
weblogic application server to a multi-processor machine. Will 2 processors
handle twice server the load of the one processor machine?
Platform: Solaris 2.6
Weblogic Server: 4.5.1 SP7
NativeIO enabled
Weblogic Server is the only thing running on the machine.
Other Questions:
1. Is there anything that needs to be done(other than purchase another
license) for the weblogic server to work on a multi-processor system?
2. Will the weblogic server naturally take advantage both processors?
3. Will performance gains be uniform or will certain features gain more
from multiple processors?
Any links or suggestions are appreciated.
thanks,
Jeremy

Hi Jeremy -
If you are interested in modeling this before implementing it to determine
performance gains, you might want to check out our scalability assessment
services description, see attached. We are a BEA Technology Alliance Partner
that specializes in answering those specific performance questions, and have
done that for a number of clients in the past few weeks.
(See also eQASEsheet2.pdf) - this describes our capacity sizing tool that works
particularly well for Weblogic.
Todd
jeremy wrote:
I would like to know what performance gains I might expect from moving our
weblogic application server to a multi-processor machine. Will 2 processors
handle twice server the load of the one processor machine?
Platform: Solaris 2.6
Weblogic Server: 4.5.1 SP7
NativeIO enabled
Weblogic Server is the only thing running on the machine.
Other Questions:
1. Is there anything that needs to be done(other than purchase another
license) for the weblogic server to work on a multi-processor system?
2. Will the weblogic server naturally take advantage both processors?
3. Will performance gains be uniform or will certain features gain more
from multiple processors?
Any links or suggestions are appreciated.
thanks,
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Can anyone suggest how to fix batch processor performance?

The DBA's examined the OPA batch process while it was running. Oracle was sitting idle most the time waiting on the batch processor (according to the DBA staff.) Locks were not an issue and the DB was not under any load.
The performance is absolutely dismal and we are going to open an OPA support ticket, but would like a quick answer if anyone on this forum has a quick answer.
(Also, if you try to kill the batch job with <ctrl-c> because it is taking too long, then it leaves the sessions and cursors open. Is there a way to gracefully shut down the batch processor?)
We have a single simple table where the first 5 columns are conditions and the last column is a conclusion.
I filled the table with 1,000,000 rows of conditional data. I ran with a configuration like below:
<configuration>
<options>
<rulebase>../output/MyRules.zip</rulebase>
<database>
<url>jdbc:oracle:thin:myusername/mypassword@mydatabase:1521:mySID</url>
<driver>oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver</driver>
<driversrc>\myjdbcdriverpath\ojdbc6.jar</driversrc>
</database>
<output type="db" />
<mappings>
<boolean-format true-value="TRUE" false-value="FALSE" />
<mapping entity="global" table="SSPNA_IN" primary-key="ID">
<attribute name="bHasNoCountableIncome" field="BHASNOCOUNTABLEINCOME" />
<attribute name="bIsResidentOfNY" field="BISRESIDENTOFNY" />
<attribute name="cSSIBenefitAmt" field="CSSIBENEFITAMT" />
<attribute name="tFedLivingArrangementCD" field="TFEDLIVINGARRANGEMENTCD" />
<attribute name="tManualHMOInd" field="TMANUALHMOIND" />
<attribute name="tPaymentStatusCD" field="TPAYMENTSTATUSCD" />
<attribute name="tPrincipleProviderCD" field="TPRINCIPLEPROVIDERCD" />
<attribute name="cSSPNAPayment" field="CSSPNAPAYMENT" output="true" />
</mapping>
</mappings>
</options>
</configuration>

This is definitely not something we've seen in the testing environment.
Can you please raise a SR via Oracle Support and provide the following information?
1. Product version. Version 10.4.1 added multi-processor support for Java database connection in case you were using 10.4.0
2. Oracle database version
3. Is the database installed on a physical server or a VM? What's the machine specification, i.e. CPU and memory size?
4. Is the SSPNA_IN table indexed?
5. What is the logging level? Does it help if you change the logging level to ERROR?
6. Please provide the rulebase project and DDL/DML to create tables and insert sample data.

Dual processor / performance

Hello world!
Is anyone running a dual processor or dual core procesor with a jmf application or even JMStudio? on Windows or Linux.
Could you tell us
1) The sort of performance gain you get compaired to single cpu
2) The type of cpu you use
3) Do you experience any cpu related problems worth mentioning
Thanks for your input,
Fred

ok here are some tests that seem to clarify things and contradict some of the previous text on this posting.
We created a number crunching cpu intensive basic java application (see code below) and the result are as follow
machine 1 single 3ghz Intel P4 cpu windows xp
machine 2 dual 3ghz Intel P4 cpu (2 X 3ghz ) windows 2000 server
1 single thread
machine 1 took 17 seconds at 97% max cpu
machine 2 took 33 seconds at 50% max cpu
2 concurent threads
machine 1 took 35 seconds at 97% max cpu
machine 2 took more than 70 seconds at 97% max cpu
So it seems that multithreading or not for java, a dual cpu on windows is a waiste of time.
code
========================
import java.math.BigDecimal;
public class singleThread {
     public static void main(String[] arguments)throws Exception {
          BigDecimal bd1 = new BigDecimal(123456.123456789123589915615616161566666666155444122);
          BigDecimal bd2 = new BigDecimal(1593456.123456789123589915615616161515677666155444122);
          BigDecimal bd3 = new BigDecimal(0);
          for (int i =0 ; i <10000 ; i++){
               bd3 = bd1.multiply(bd2);
               bd3 = bd3.divide(bd1,5322 ,BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP );
          System.out.println(bd3);
==========================================
public class multipleThread {
     public static void main(String[] arguments)throws Exception {
          theThread t1 = new theThread();
          theThread t2 = new theThread();
======================================
import java.math.BigDecimal;
class theThread extends Thread {
     Thread t;
     theThread(){
          t = new Thread(this);
          t.start();
     public void run() {
          System.out.println("Starting Thread");
          BigDecimal bd1 = new BigDecimal(123456.123456789123589915615616161566666666155444122);
          BigDecimal bd2 = new BigDecimal(1593456.123456789123589915615616161515677666155444122);
          BigDecimal bd3 = new BigDecimal(0);
          for (int i =0 ; i <10000 ; i++){
               bd3 = bd1.multiply(bd2);
               bd3 = bd3.divide(bd1,5322 ,BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP );
          System.out.println(bd3);
===================================

Entry processor performance and serialization

Our application invokes an entry processor from a .Net extend client. We are seeing very poor performance the first few times the processor is invoked (typically 60ms vs 2ms). I was expecting this to be due to the overhead of the initial TCP connection but this doesn't appear to be the case. Here is a typical set of timings from the beginning of invoking the EP on the client:
5ms: Object starts being deserialized on proxy
7ms: Deserialization is finished, and serialization begins
9ms: Serialization is complete.
55ms: Deserialization begins on the storage node
58ms: Deserialization complete on storage node
58.5: Entry processor invocation complete
60ms: Serialization of result is complete
My questions are:
- What is happening between the end of serialization of the object by the proxy and deserialization starting on the storage node?
- Given that the cache is POF enabled, why is the proxy deserializing and reserializing the entry processor?
Version is 3.7.1.6

Hi Rob,
Config is below. defer-key-association-check is not set. The timings were established by logging the POF serialization in each process so its definitely the proxy that is doing it.
Regards,
Dave
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<cache-config xmlns="http://schemas.tangosol.com/cache">
<caching-scheme-mapping>
<cache-mapping>
<cache-name>Cache</cache-name>
<scheme-name>remote-scheme</scheme-name>
</cache-mapping>
</caching-scheme-mapping>
<caching-schemes>
<remote-cache-scheme>
<scheme-name>remote-scheme</scheme-name>
<service-name>ExtendProxyService</service-name>
<initiator-config>
<tcp-initiator>
<remote-addresses>
<socket-address>
<address>localhost</address>
<port>1234</port>
</socket-address>
</remote-addresses>
<connect-timeout>5s</connect-timeout>
</tcp-initiator>
<outgoing-message-handler>
<request-timeout>1s</request-timeout>
</outgoing-message-handler>
<serializer>
<class-name>Tangosol.IO.Pof.ConfigurablePofContext, Coherence</class-name>
<init-params>
<init-param>
<param-type>string</param-type>
<param-value>assembly://..../pof-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
</init-params>
</serializer>
</initiator-config>
</remote-cache-scheme>
</caching-schemes>
</cache-config>
Server cache config:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<cache-config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/coherence/coherence-cache-config"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.oracle.com/coherence/coherence-cache-config coherence-cache-config.xsd">
<defaults>
<serializer>pof</serializer>
</defaults>
<caching-scheme-mapping>
<cache-mapping>
<cache-name>Cache</cache-name>
<scheme-name>cache-distributed</scheme-name>
</cache-mapping>
</caching-scheme-mapping>
<caching-schemes>
<distributed-scheme>
<scheme-name>cache-distributed</scheme-name>
<service-name>PartitionedCache</service-name>
<thread-count>10</thread-count>
<partition-count>2039</partition-count>
<backing-map-scheme>
<local-scheme />
</backing-map-scheme>
<autostart>true</autostart>
</distributed-scheme>
<proxy-scheme>
<service-name>ExtendProxyService</service-name>
<thread-count>5</thread-count>
<acceptor-config>
<tcp-acceptor>
<local-address>
<address>localhost</address>
<port system-property="tangosol.coherence.proxy.port"></port>
</local-address>
</tcp-acceptor>
</acceptor-config>
<proxy-config>
<cache-service-proxy>
<class-name>....InteceptorCacheService</class-name>
<init-params>
<init-param>
<param-type>com.tangosol.net.CacheService</param-type>
<param-value>{service}</param-value>
</init-param>
</init-params>
</cache-service-proxy>
</caching-schemes>
</cache-config>

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I'm a new Mac user and there's something I don't get:
I bought this MacBook last week (2.0MHz) and its performance is awesome.
The thing is that I downloaded this processor temp checker and it says that the current frequency is 1.5MHz. Should I trust this? How could I double check?
Thanks.

Under this energy scheme the processor shuold step up and down in processor speed based on CPU demand. The 1.5GHz figure that is being reported is more than likely right. What you can do is run a processor intensive task and it should step up to 2GHz.

Nokia N79 Processor Performance.

Hi to all.
I would like to ask if you can somehow upgrade Nokia N79 processor perfomance from 369Mhz to 600Mhz like Nokia C5-00. So my N79 can match C5-00's performance thank you.

ha ha, wishful thinking, i have heard of processor overclocking, i dont know if it applies to mobile processors and if its possible with nokia fones.

Report giving error when scheduled in background (ABAP/4 processor:PERFORM)

Dear Freinds,
I have written a custom program and iam not able schedule in background, if check in SM37 the job getting canceleld and found as the error ABAP/4 processor: PERFORM_NOT_FOUND.
Please could you let me know should i specify in my custom program for get sucessfully run in background . or could any one please let me know any setting should be done for my custom program
regards
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Hi
when i run in foreground it is working perfectly. The Spool is not getting created.
regards
madhuri
Edited by: madhuri_2000 kumari on Nov 26, 2008 2:00 PM

When does the Image Processor perform actions?

Let's say I use the image processor to convert a bunch of .psd files into JPEGs while also using the resize to fit (and convert to sRGB) option. I also want it to run an action which sharpens the image. When does that action/sharpening happen? Before or after the resize?
Can it be that this behavior was changed in CS5 (compared to CS3)?

I would appear that the srgb-conversion, the resizing and the Action are applied in this order.
See lines 1584 to 1592 of »Image Processor.jsx«.
If you wanted to change the sequence you could edit the Script (after making a backup of it in another location, duplicating the Script in the Scripts-folder would seem inadvisable).

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