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i'm with mikuro, the graph shows it's using both processors equally (approx. 50%), which i interpret as it has the abiltiy to multithread. otherwise one would be at 100% and the other would be about 5-7% for system use. i'm positive that it's not an I/O problem, but lurk's post reminded me i...

I'm afraid you may have misunderstood my question. compressor is what i want running at full speed. even though it says it's running at 98%. it's not. if you look at the bottom of the activity monitor you can see that 42% of the CPU is still idle. this number should be 0% or near 0% when...

so i've been trying to figure out why this is happening. in the process list the app. says it's near 100%, but when you look at the graphs/numbers at the bottom it's only using approx. 50%. it's like this in every app. i've tried. it's like the system is totalling 50% on each processor as...