OS wars! ;) Benchmark

**Lucradia** · March 9th, 2011

Originally Posted by Caboose885

Everything is 64 Bit but the program only ran in 32 bit cause its the trial version (dumb)

And this is why I won't test.

**Spr0k3t** · March 9th, 2011

Would be nice to see the 64bit results.

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=375079

**handy** · March 9th, 2011

Comparisons don't mean squat.

The bottom line is, is a user (company) content with the efficiency/efficacy of their hardware/OS/application solution(s) & the professional support available for them?

Some tasks require huge amounts of hardware to satisfy a user's requirement(s).

The choice of OS is unimportant. What is important is running the specialised software required for the task at hand. Inefficiency in any quarter costs time, money & credibility. Credibility can be the most costly variable of all.

If this software is available on a stable & free OS; well then that is a plus.

If it is not, then more money must be spent buying the OS (so what?).

Whether money is saved or lost by using a free OS is debatable, due to the range of variables involved that include system support, hardware compatibility & professional standard application availability.

**3Miro** · March 9th, 2011

Originally Posted by handy

The choice of OS is unimportant. What is important is running the specialised software required for the task at hand. Inefficiency in any quarter costs time, money & credibility. Credibility can be the most costly variable of all.

Not entirely true. A few years ago I had MATLAB on both Linux and Windows. A computation that takes several hours would run under Linux, but would crash Windows XP. Do you think Vista can run on 100% CPU and 80% Memory for one week straight? Ubuntu has no trouble with it. The choice of OS does matter.

**Lucradia** · March 9th, 2011

Originally Posted by 3Miro

Not entirely true. A few years ago I had MATLAB on both Linux and Windows. A computation that takes several hours would run under Linux, but would crash Windows XP. Do you think Vista can run on 100% CPU and 80% Memory for one week straight? Ubuntu has no trouble with it. The choice of OS does matter.

AMD can run under 100% CPU easier than Intel to be honest. Try using the betas of Folding@Home using the 64-bit optimized ones. They can tax your CPU to almost un-usability, but won't crash your system, it'll just make it act really slow (Linux will still allow you to use the mouse easily; but not Windows.)

A very simple test though is to use a timer and then execute a fork bomb on each system. (Make sure to disable advanced firewalls such as COMODO; as they will try to stop a buffer overflow.)

**3Miro** · March 9th, 2011

Originally Posted by Lucradia

AMD can run under 100% CPU easier than Intel to be honest. Try using the betas of Folding@Home using the 64-bit optimized ones. They can tax your CPU to almost un-usability, but won't crash your system, it'll just make it act really slow (Linux will still allow you to use the mouse easily; but not Windows.)

A very simple test though is to use a timer and then execute a fork bomb on each system. (Make sure to disable advanced firewalls such as COMODO; as they will try to stop a buffer overflow.)

The mouse issue is probably related to the memory. The biggest hit on performance is when you fill all of memory and then have to go on swap. In the case of a supercomputer, the OS makes huge difference. Win7 uses about a gig of RAM just for itself, suppose you have 1000 machines that is a terabyte of RAM. A out-of-the-box Ubuntu would cut that by a factor of 4. Optimized Linux can go below 100MB per node and I would imagine Windows server would do better than Win7.

Bottom line is, the OS does matter.

**chucky chuckaluck** · March 9th, 2011

I'd be curious to see how the Win7 and Ubuntu compare to Snow Leopard on a iMac. And, I guess you could put Mac OS X x86 in there, too.

**handy** · March 11th, 2011

Originally Posted by 3Miro

Not entirely true. A few years ago I had MATLAB on both Linux and Windows. A computation that takes several hours would run under Linux, but would crash Windows XP. Do you think Vista can run on 100% CPU and 80% Memory for one week straight? Ubuntu has no trouble with it. The choice of OS does matter.

There are always exceptions.

**Khakilang** · March 11th, 2011

To me I am not so concern about performance since its only a small difference. But I am more concern on other issue like virus and spyware. Bit its good to know.

**Lucradia** · March 11th, 2011

Originally Posted by Khakilang

To me I am not so concern about performance since its only a small difference. But I am more concern on other issue like virus and spyware. Bit its good to know.

viruses and malware aren't really an issue with Linux; most have all been patched immediately after they've been found. However; no matter the system, a trojan will always succeed.