Justin, We have also a SGI workstation at our lab, and the Java3D performance was very poor too. Any news you have we be welcome.
Alessandro Borges --- Justin Couch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Joerg Scheurich aka MUFTI wrote: > > >>Performer maybe used the other processors too, > while XJ3D only used > >>one processor ? > > > > > > BTW: SGI machines have a tool "gr_osview" which > can be configured > > to track the activity of a running SGI > machine, including > > multiple CPUs and graphics. > > That's what we were using. Despite claims otherwise, > Java3D is running > not multi-threaded internally. With 4 CPU's when > running _any_ Java3D > application on the box, it would max one CPU and > leave the rest > completely idle. This appears to be an SGI-specific > problem because my > development machine is dual-CPU and J3D correctly > spreads the load > across both processors here. We checked the details > of the latest JVM > and it is using native threads, so there's something > else really wrong > with the SGI port of Java3D right now. I couldn't > really recommend > anyone else using it given this experience. > > -- > Justin Couch > http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ > Java Architect & Bit Twiddler > http://www.yumetech.com/ > Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer > http://www.j3d.org/ _______________________________________________________________________ Desafio AntiZona: participe do jogo de perguntas e respostas que vai dar um Renault Clio, computadores, cāmeras digitais, videogames e muito mais! www.cade.com.br/antizona =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
