On Jun 27, 2005, at 12:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just want to say about os x being processor and ram hungry this: I
actually havent noticed it to be very ram hungry. i have 896mb, a
good amount, and
that is always enough. im usually only using not even half that.
however, my
450mhz processor definitely has a hard time handling os x. why is
that? what
is it that makes it so processor hungry? i like my oses efficient
and that
bothers me that my 450mhz g4 gets overwhelmed a lot.
Well, it's ram-hungry up to a point. 512 megs is where it really
stops being RAM-constrained for most normal uses. You're quite beyond
that, so you don't notice it
As for processor-hungry, well, it really depends on what's going on.
Also measuring CPU load (a la the magical number that 'top' or 'w'
produce) is a black art. I've seen several descriptions of what it
means and all have left me scratching my head and going 'huh?' That
number is also the basis for the graphical CPU load meters in
Activity monitor and it doesn't, strictly speaking, measure *just*
CPU load.
That said, multi-tasking is so much more efficient in OS X you tend
not to notice that you're running a lot of processes at once; all the
time.
Other factors (bus speed, disk IO etc, even the way graphics are
programmed) have a lot to do with perceived speed. For example. one
things that's different bewteen, say, OS X and Windows is that
Windows throws up a blank window outline first, then fills it in; OS
X builds the window in memory then displays it. (This behavior may
have changed, it's been a long time since I heard this)
While the overall time from zero to a usable window maybe the same,
perceptually, the Windows system seemed to be working faster, because
things happened sooner after the double-click.
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Bruce Johnson
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