Thank you, Thorsten.

Dave.

"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> In article <web.4102bb1b89c889b61b6d5cc50@news.povray.org> , "David Brewer"
> <dav### [at] brewer-familyorg> wrote:
>
> > I've been reading about performance benchmarks for PovRay on the G5 and it
> > seems that there is a wide disparity in results.  Several have posted
> > benchmark results (using the built-in Benchmark scene) of not much over 1
> > minute with a dual 2Ghz machine,
>
> Wherever you saw those results, they were either for another benchmark or
> they were just plain wrong because either someone made a mistake running the
> benchmark or intentionally manipulated the results for fun.  Happens all the
> time.
>
> > while others have posted upwards of 20
> > minutes.  Running PovRay 3.6.0 on my dual 2 Ghz G5 machine, I'm getting
> > results of about 38 minutes.
>
> While I would expect something around 30 minutes, 38 minutes does not sound
> all that far off.
>
> > I don't see any issues related to CPU usage.
> > It appears to use both processors equally at about 50%.
>
> You cannot use CPU usage window to see how much processor time a specific
> application consumes.  All you see there is the time-average over a second
> or more that each processor was used. Applications will be executed on
> either several times a second.  Use the Activity Monitor so see how much an
> application uses on each processor.  POV-Ray only uses one thread for
> rendering, and hence will only use one CPU.
>
> > Any ideas about why there is such a difference?
>
> There is none.
>
>     Thorsten
>
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