POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : Why so slow? : Re: Why so slow? Server Time
28 Jul 2024 18:16:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Why so slow?  
From: Mark Gordon
Date: 26 Sep 1999 19:02:45
Message: <37EEA69F.5F004EB7@mailbag.com>
Jean Montambeault wrote:
> 
>         For what it's worth, I can render the skyvase.pov benchmark in 1
> min 43 seconds under Windows 98 and 1 min 30 under X-window
> (WindowMaker, kernel 2.0.36 from an installation by Redhat 5.2). Now
> there's no need for swapping here (128 Mbytes RAM).
>         There's a real neat little program named "top" on my computer that
> can be called from any console or x-term : it will tell you
> everything you need to know about the action going on at your
> system. It's on mine from birth but probably exist in some RPM
> depot. Try it : do "h" to list the option. "P" (capitalized) sort
> the processes by % of cpu usage.

Yes, I'm quite familiar with top.

-Mark Gordon


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