- Joined
- May 25, 2020
- Messages
- 37
- Motherboard
- GIGABYTE Z390 DESIGNARE
- CPU
- i9-9900K
- Graphics
- RX 580
Perhaps Spotlight indexing is taking place? We can also run Activity Monitor and sort the list by “%cpu” to see which process is consuming excess time.
@CaseySJ that's exactly the bizarre thing, that nothing is really using up any CPU. I've had Logic Pro X and Firefox open for a few days, but otherwise, the bigger CPU Time usage is coming from kernel_task. As you can see the overall CPU usage is really sitting on ~97% idle. The few bumps you see in the graph were moments of me opening some apps which require higher loads to see how things behave. And in each case, I never bumped over 85% idle (so max 15% CPU usage). It's as if the Hackintosh isn't allocating all the resources it could.
I double-clicked the graph to open the CPU History and discovered a strange thing, the graph assumes I have 16 cores, where this is an 8-core machine. It's only showing activity on the odd-numbered cores (so 8 cores total, which I guess is correct). Does the load distribution look correct?