"Charles Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:08:31 +0000:
> IIRC you have a much better computer than mine, but you say klibido eats > around half a CPU? Would you like to run a 0.110/klibido speed test for > me? :) I like to be safe in my claims, so that's in the same category as the earlier claim I was making that I expected pan 1.0 out by the end of the year. =8^) Standard baseline CPU is ~10% of one (of two), here. That's with xmms (yes, I still use xmms) streaming netradio (with level and fft display), composite and window semi-transparency, and various per-second computer status graphs. Take a look at the screenshots for an idea... http://members.cox.net/pu61ic.1inux.dunc4n/pix/screenshots/index.html IIRC actual klibido CPU use was 20-30%, IIRC, minus the baseline so 10-20%. However, being conservative, I only claimed 50%, which still made the point since pan was pegging 100% and judging by the lack of interactive response would be at least doubling that if it could, to do in (conservatively) an hour, what klibido did in seconds to minutes. I actually haven't had klibido installed in awhile, because the existing ebuild was stale last I looked, and while I know how to fix it, and wanted to do so and submit the ebuild upstream (to Gentoo), it just never got high enough on my priority list to do, for the same reason I hadn't tested pan 0.1xx on binaries until this week -- I had other things ranking higher on my priority list than USENET binaries, so working on a client to grab those binaries was likewise low on my list. I'm into work days again now, but I had a bit more time last week and if I get it this week too, you might just get that comparison. =8^) (As you can tell if you check my headers, I'm still running 0.109 ATM, tho I'm doing a system update in another window and will be merging the new pan after that.) BTW, my dual Opteron is only the 242, which runs 1.6 GHz, tho I'm running two of them and have gobs of memory @ 8 gig. Your Athlon XP 2500 looks to be clocked at 1.83 GHz according to my quick pricewatch lookup, so it's probably pretty close, given pan is single-threaded so confined to using one CPU, and looked to me to be running ~70-80 MB during the time it was pegging here, so the half-gig vs 8-gig thing shouldn't matter much either, except under swap-storm conditions due to what else you might be running. Of course, for disk access I'm running a 4-disk RAID-6 for the important parts of my system, so effectively 2-way striped, which would make a difference on disk access. FWIW, before I upgraded to the RAID, that or the gig of memory was the bottleneck. After the RAID upgrade, it was the gig memory. After upgrading that to 8 gig (4 would have been plenty for now but I expect I'll be keeping this system for awhile so I went ahead with 8), its definitely the CPUs again. I'll be solving that with a pair of dual-core Opti 270s or better later this year or maybe early next. I'm hoping they drop in price and I can do 275s or even 280s or 285s, as the 22xx series gets stronger. I'm figuring that'll be my last major system upgrade for 3 years, maybe more. I'm taking a break from upgrading my system to upgrade my eyes -- I'm looking at lasik. I'm hoping by the next system upgrade, therefore, to be able to go oct-core in a single socket, thereby avoiding the $400 price-point mobo I had to do for dual Opteron. I figure 3 years out quad-core should be well established and oct-core coming online, so an oct-core system at 3-5 years should be reasonable, and provide a rather decent upgrade while putting me back in the mid-range as opposed to the high end I'm in now, which will be low end by then. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
