Subject: Re: New G4s
From: Jim Potter (jrp@wvi.com)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 19:03:22 MDT
I did some testing several months ago on a dual 500 (Linux vs Darwin) and
linux always came out ahead (less general overhead, more bang for the buck
task-wise, lots less cache thrashing). I haven't tested any of the newer OSX
or Darwin releases, though.
> I'd be interested in your view of the performance difference between OS X
> and YDL with that kind of setup...
>
> If you do install YDL please post your results.
>
> Kit
>
> At 05:28 PM 8/23/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >> Just checked the specs on:
> >>
> >>http://www.apple.com/powermac/specs.html
> >>
> >> and the G4s still max out at 1.5 GB.
> >>
> >> I suspect that XFree doesn't work well with the new NVIDIA GeForce2
> >>cards, but has anyone gotten YDL to run on this hardware yet? I might be
> >>in the market for a Dual 800.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>Chris
> >>
> >>--
> >>
> >>Christopher Murtagh
> >>Webmaster / Sysadmin
> >>Web Communications Group
> >>McGill University
> >>Montreal, Quebec
> >>Canada
> >
> >Want me to try? I have 1.5GB, Dual 800, GeF 3... ;) no spare hard drive
> >though, and I wasn't really interested in running this as a Linux
> >box. I'm using OS X.
> >
> >--Brian
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kit Plummer
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-- Sincerely,Jim Potter 45th Parallel Processing jrp@wvi.com
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