On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:53:46 +0000 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now one might be thinking that this indicates that there is a faulty > CPU(Athlon 1800) > but for the fact that W2k and Gordian knot can run my FSB-133 setting Hmm. Not quite sure. I'd think the bus setting and maybe RAM - mprime is going to work the RAM pretty heavy (so will gcc). mencoder does work ram somewhat, but I would think it fairly sequential in access patterns. Think a bit to what it's doing - grabbing a frame from a media, analyzing the frame, going 2D through the frame looking at it and doing a lot of transforms, conversions, and so forth, and throwing the results into another file. A good portion of the time it's communicating with the disk as well. Unless you're doing something really intensive with mencoder, it's not going to stress the comp nearly as much as mprime will. Gordian knot (I've never used it) might actually not use as much of the CPU on Windows as a similar program would on Linux. > and installed in W2K and run the test again from there. But for now > food for thought. I got that one for my brother's other CPU, a PIII/700 model that he's been using Windows on for years (now he has also a Pentium 4). The thing failed the test, amazingly enough. But he'll probably never switch to linux :(. I really don't think it's an interaction with the CPU and with Linux. If the bus is running at 100mhz fsb, it's the same cpu when it's run at 133. My guess that it might be a bridge or RAM issue. Have you tried other memory-intensive things - like 'make -j 100' in /usr/src/linux? (That's a joke -- actually don't go that high, unless you have *gobs* of RAM. I have 256 megs, and I did a make -j 25 once. It worked, amazingly enough.) > John -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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