How my system fares here??

[heatblazer]

Here is an attachement (a shot) from my system monitor. I am using 4 desktops, one for Thunderbird, one for FF3, one for chats, msgrs, etc and one for others (file copying right now) I have mounted 4 HDDs, and here is the CPU graph. Share what do you think.

P.S. As I expect most of you to be familliar with buntu`s look so I won`t explain which icon what means. I just need some comments about that shot :)

[jdrodrig]

To be honest, not sure which type of comments you were expecting....what I like the most was the 15 celcius! for me the perfect temperature!

[HappyFeet]

To be honest, not sure which type of comments you were expecting....what I like the most was the 15 celcius! for me the perfect temperature!

I agree. Looks like a standard ubuntu desktop to me. Is there something unusual that I missed?

[heatblazer]

I agree. Looks like a standard ubuntu desktop to me. Is there something unusual that I missed?

I forgot to mention the running apps. I was copying files form HDD 1 to HDD 2, running im clients, FF3, and Thunderbird, but forgot to list:
ps -ely
sorry. I was showing the load of E8400 at multitasking. Average performance but I guess quads will be better :)

[jdrodrig]

I forgot to mention the running apps. I was copying files form HDD 1 to HDD 2, running im clients, FF3, and Thunderbird, but forgot to list:
ps -ely
sorry. I was showing the load of E8400 at multitasking. Average performance but I guess quads will be better :)

The advances in CPUs is one of the things that keeps interested in searching for kernels that fully exploit them.....so far, I have a couple of months using a Corei7 that ubuntu recognizes as 8 cpus and it is clearly amazing! btw, Good luck to Intel with this recent lawsuit!

[HappyFeet]

I forgot to mention the running apps. I was copying files form HDD 1 to HDD 2, running im clients, FF3, and Thunderbird, but forgot to list:
ps -ely
sorry. I was showing the load of E8400 at multitasking. Average performance but I guess quads will be better :)

Well, here's my quad@2.8ghz. See attachment for screenshot of my system monitor. Keep in mind that I am converting a DVD, seeding 4 torrents, have dual screens, recording TV, and 4 tabs open in opera.

[heatblazer]

The advances in CPUs is one of the things that keeps interested in searching for kernels that fully exploit them.....so far, I have a couple of months using a Corei7 that ubuntu recognizes as 8 cpus and it is clearly amazing! btw, Good luck to Intel with this recent lawsuit!

Yes. That`s because of i7`s Hyper Threading I guess. Good I am happy that ubuntu benefits from multiple cores!

[running_rabbit07]

The advances in CPUs is one of the things that keeps interested in searching for kernels that fully exploit them.....so far, I have a couple of months using a Corei7 that ubuntu recognizes as 8 cpus and it is clearly amazing! btw, Good luck to Intel with this recent lawsuit!

If you don't mind, I'd love to see a screenshot with all of those CPUs. That is awesome. I will have to google to see what they are getting sued for this time.

[jdrodrig]

If you don't mind, I'd love to see a screenshot with all of those CPUs. That is awesome. I will have to google to see what they are getting sued for this time.

Sure. let me get home tonight and I will post the screenshot.

[jdrodrig]

Well, I am cheating a bit...I am logged-in in the opensolaris partition, but it is the same gnome...

Hopefully I added the image correctly..(my first time)

[heatblazer]

Well, I am cheating a bit...I am logged-in in the opensolaris partition, but it is the same gnome...

Hopefully I added the image correctly..(my first time)

Nice one :")

[running_rabbit07]

Well, I am cheating a bit...I am logged-in in the opensolaris partition, but it is the same gnome...

Hopefully I added the image correctly..(my first time)

That is cool. I don't mind what people use, everyone uses what makes them happy. I like trying out different OSes.

[heatblazer]

Thanks to everybody that revived that old thread of mine. I am interested in something - BOGOMIPS. As I fugured BOGOMIPS are calculated with thre freq of core x nuber of cores. Kind of if you have a dual core with 2GHz, the BOGOMIPS will be 4000 BOGOMIPS. Can you show me i7`s bogomips :) I am jsut curious.

[3rdalbum]

Well, I am cheating a bit...I am logged-in in the opensolaris partition, but it is the same gnome...

Hopefully I added the image correctly..(my first time)

What on earth are you doing that uses no CPU power, but consumes 5.5GiB of RAM?

Still, impressive screenshot.

The first screenshot in the thread seems to be using too much CPU power for what is being done in the background. All of the programs being used should be near-idle.

I must say, my favourite thing is to rip a DVD and look at both CPU indicators sticking to 100% - it's like "Yep, I'm pushing my computer to its absolute limits!".

[3rdalbum]

Thanks to everybody that revived that old thread of mine. I am interested in something - BOGOMIPS. As I fugured BOGOMIPS are calculated with thre freq of core x nuber of cores. Kind of if you have a dual core with 2GHz, the BOGOMIPS will be 4000 BOGOMIPS. Can you show me i7`s bogomips :) I am jsut curious.

MIPS is "Million Instructions Per Second". It's not calculated with CPU frequency, at least not from what I've heard. The "Bogo" bit means "bogus" - which is a reference to how inaccurate the Bogomips measurement actually is.

[-grubby]

What on earth are you doing that uses no CPU power, but consumes 5.5GiB of RAM?


Cache?

[heatblazer]

MIPS is "Million Instructions Per Second". It's not calculated with CPU frequency, at least not from what I've heard. The "Bogo" bit means "bogus" - which is a reference to how inaccurate the Bogomips measurement actually is.

Interesting... I`ll look more into that. Thanks.

[3rdalbum]

Cache?

My Gnome System Monitor doesn't count the cache, only the active use. Unless he's running an old version that maybe does count cache?

[underquark]

No screenshot necessary. Just decode a DVD using DVDShrink running under Wine and watch four processors go like the clappers. Add in a session or two of Virtualbox if you want to feel that you're using all your memory.

[heatblazer]

Not bad ideas. One good test is Wine > mame32 > tekken tag tournament. When in-game press F11. Then hold INSERT to see what % you`ll get.