[sage-devel] Re: virtualbox speed

2009-10-24 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> Interesting. Do you have some notes about your KVM setup? I want to >> try it as well, as the ubuntu guys seem to prefer it over virtualbox: I'm using kvm directly (not libvirt / vi

[sage-devel] Re: virtualbox speed

2009-10-23 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > Hi Gonzalo, > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Gonzalo Tornaria > wrote: >> >> For comparision, I'm using kvm to virtualize our sage notebook server. >> Here's the timings for your scripts: >> >> A) the real hardware >> >> 0.196608066559

[sage-devel] Re: virtualbox speed

2009-10-23 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi Gonzalo, On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > > For comparision, I'm using kvm to virtualize our sage notebook server. > Here's the timings for your scripts: > > A) the real hardware > > 0.196608066559 > 1 > > 0.191864967346 > -50 > > B) the kvm instance > > 0.219820

[sage-devel] Re: virtualbox speed

2009-10-23 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
For comparision, I'm using kvm to virtualize our sage notebook server. Here's the timings for your scripts: A) the real hardware 0.196608066559 1 0.191864967346 -50 B) the kvm instance 0.219820976257 (11.8% slowdown) 1 0.213951826096 (11.5% slowdown) -50 Gonzalo On Fri, Oct 23, 200

[sage-devel] Re: virtualbox speed

2009-10-23 Thread Martin Albrecht
I assume the VirtualBox image is 32-bit and your native OS is 64-bit? So it isn't that surprising that computations with bigger numbers are somewhat slower (13x is a bit much still, me thinks) Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _o