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Performance Linux VS. MacOS
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Rasmus Madsen Send message Joined: 14 Jul 07 Posts: 4 Credit: 33,524,881 RAC: 45 |
I have been toying with the idea of switching from macos to linux but one thing that's putting me off is the performance difference. When running SETI under macos i can use my CPU(i7-2600) and GPU(GTX 970) at 100% and still browse the web, watch youtube, write documents etc. without even knowing that SETI is using 100% CPU&GPU. My seti settings on mac are just to use all my resources all the time. But under linux(have tried many distros), when seti is using 100% cpu&gpu the machine is pretty much unusable, the whole interface slows down to a crawl. It helps to disable GPU computation, but the desktop experience is still not acceptable. Does anyone know what might be causing this? |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I am using 1 CPU and 1 Nvidia GPU on my Linux box in Einstein@home with a two cores Opteron 1210 aged ten years and I can still roam the Web and write to the message boards. GPU is GTX 750 Ti. Tullio |
Rasmus Madsen Send message Joined: 14 Jul 07 Posts: 4 Credit: 33,524,881 RAC: 45 |
Hmm, thats very odd. I'm currently using Manjaro linux, and found that if i set to use 4 of the 8 cores then i don't have any trouble. Are you using the nouveau or nvidia driver? |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I am using nvidia driver 384.11 Tullio |
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