Ok. Monitoring CPU time, 99.7% went to povray,
0.3% to everything else (including ssl/ssh, the shell,
and top).

I remember trying something with lots of radiosity
samples, and that the 2GHz linux machine rendered
the picture in about 20-30% more time than the
1.7GHz windows box povray. Both ahtlon machines,
lots of ram (1G)

Maybe it depends on what exactly is rendered?
I'll run a few test in a week or so, when I come back
from the Antilles (yay! vacations!)

Best,

    S.

--
Steven Pigeon, Ph. D.
pig### [at] iroumontrealca

"Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
news:405a795e$1@news.povray.org...
> "Marc Roth" <mar### [at] rothconsultcom> wrote in message
> news:405a45d3$1@news.povray.org...
> > Gary Blessing wrote:
> >
> > > BTW. its fantastic! I would like to have a desktop sized version.
> >
> > me too, me too!! *jumps up and down*
> >
> > it's absolutely wonderful!
>
> Me four! Er, three!!
>
> I have a Linux box running Debian Linux @ 700 Mhz and I've found it
renders
> just slightly slower than my 1.5 Ghz machine so I can't complain. Of
course,
> I chose Debian just so I could strip-it down just to run POV-Ray as a
> render-slave. I imagine running any sort of windowing system would put a
lot
> of overhead on it. I run Exceed on my Windows box as the client so that's
> how I get to view renderings in-progress without having to install an
> X-Server.
>
> --
> - Respectfully,
> Dan
> http://<broken link>
>
>

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