Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Feb 27, 2004, at 9:38 AM, Felix wrote:
Yeah, I'm here too.
Running Panther on this a beige G3 300 and the difference in speed is so very pleasing. Can't wait to get that G4 upgrade. Having problems with iphoto seeing my old library, but I'm sure i can figure that out. i haven't restored everything yet and i still have to figure out how to move the user folder over to the larger partition. last time i tried it resulted in problems b/c i messed up something in terminal i'm sure. one odd thing is that since yesterday, my monitor is no longer being recognized as a Sony 200 monitor but instead only as a "VGA Display" or vga monitor. It still works though. Tried the quartz extreme hack and it was cool to see that eyecandy, but i read it could slow down performance so I disabled it. Using a Radeon 64MB PCI card. Thanks to everyone who's helped me out so far. Panther is beautiful! I have 448MB of RAM. Does anyone think it would make a difference if I get more? Also, with user switching, I take it the system takes a performace hit, right? anyone notice how much of one in general?
with only one user, no hit at all, otherwise it's dependent on what's going on in the other user's space. If only interactive programs were running (browser, wp, games, etc) not much (there's memory used up, but no real processor hit). If something CPU intensive is going like rendering a movie or animation, then yes it'll be much like you were doing it as one user, stands to reason.
here's the top two lines of 'top'
One user:
Processes: 51 total, 2 running, 49 sleeping... 156 threads 10:51:22
Load Avg: 0.39, 0.12, 0.08 CPU usage: 6.8% user, 12.7% sys, 80.5% idle
Two users:
Processes: 61 total, 2 running, 59 sleeping... 176 threads 10:54:33
Load Avg: 0.59, 0.42, 0.21 CPU usage: 11.5% user, 19.7% sys, 68.9% idle
Log out one user:
Processes: 52 total, 2 running, 50 sleeping... 158 threads 10:56:39
Load Avg: 0.39, 0.41, 0.24 CPU usage: 15.3% user, 14.5% sys, 70.2% idle
Not much of a load difference. Things don't really start slowing down until you get load avg above 1-1.5 or so.
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Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
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