I am using Povray 3.1 with FreeBSD 4.3 and everything is working so i just
wanna know how can i benchmark my machine. Its a pretty old dual-processor
PII-300.

Btw i assume Povray is multiprocessor-aware program , am i right ?


Thanks

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Jorge Faria wrote:
> 
> I am using Povray 3.1 with FreeBSD 4.3 and everything is working so i just
> wanna know how can i benchmark my machine. Its a pretty old dual-processor
> PII-300.
> 
> Btw i assume Povray is multiprocessor-aware program , am i right ?
> 

Povray itself does not use several processors, of course if the OS
supports it and there are other processes running, it will be faster.  

If you want to use several processors in a system for Povray you can try
to use PVM and run several instances of PVMPov, see:

http://www.luga.de/~flierl/pvmpov/
http://www.wozzeck.net/images/pmp/ 

For benchmarks, see:
http://www.haveland.com/index.htm?povbench/index.htm

Christoph

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Jorge Faria <jor### [at] lmiinccombr> wrote:
: Btw i assume Povray is multiprocessor-aware program , am i right ?

  Why do you assume that?

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Warp wrote:
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> Jorge Faria <jor### [at] lmiinccombr> wrote:
> : Btw i assume Povray is multiprocessor-aware program , am i right ?
> 
>   Why do you assume that?

If you didn't know the inner workings of the program why wouldn't you ?

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