[SWLUG] how much more CPU performance can one get these days?

[Mark Summerfield]

On 2009-09-18, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 11:10 +0100, Mark Summerfield wrote:
[snip]
> of interest in this case is :-
> 
> si - blocks swapped into ram
> so - blocks swapped out to disk
> 
> bi - disk blocks read
> bo - disk blocks written
> 
> if si and so are regularly non-zero then the system is having to swap
> things between ram and disk to satisfy all the memory requirements of
> whats running, try and eliminate any memory hungry programs, or go buy
> more ram.
> 
> small amounts of swapping on a system are generally harmless, but if its
> your number crunching program thats having to be swapped all the time
> then its going to be taking a massive performance penalty.

si, so, and bi, are all 0, bo ranges from 0 to low hundreds.

So it looks like it really is CPU bound so I'll just have to put up with
it for now:-)

Thanks!

-- 
Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd, www.qtrac.eu
    C++, Python, Qt, PyQt - training and consultancy
        "Programming in Python 3" - ISBN 0137129297