"Steven Pigeon" <pig### [at] iroumontrealca> wrote in message
news:405a8251$1@news.povray.org...
> 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!)

Hmmm... if you'd like to do some stats with a test scene, I can fire up my
box and get you some stats on what I get over here. It might be an
interesting excercise. What flavor of Linux are you running?

PS: thanks for the desktop image! It makes a FANTASTIC DESKTOP IMAGE!!!

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- Respectfully,
Dan
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