Ah, it appears I misunderstood. I had run that command while my
computer was relatively inactive. Running it after my program ran for
around 4 minutes yields this result: 1.83 1.19 0.53 2/255 1682

I will try downloading Sage 4.3, and see if that fixes the problem.

On Aug 9, 3:33 pm, Harald Schilly <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 9, 9:25 pm, Istarion <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I am running Sage 4.5 in Ubuntu and Sage 4.3 in VirtualBox. When I
> > checked the relative speed of the program in Ubuntu, I ran it right
> > after booting up, with the only other active process being System
> > Monitor.
>
> > $ cat /proc/loadavg yields: 0.68 0.75 0.81 1/275 2369. I am very new
> > to Linux, so I actually have no idea what that command does.
>
> this loadavg value is a measurement how much work your two cpu cores
> have to do. A value below 1 means that there is still room for more
> calculations on them while no process has to wait. So, I think, this
> could be a regression between version 4.3 to version 4.5. Depending on
> how complex your calculation is, you should try to take it apart to
> isolate the part that has slowed it down... or post the script or
> something like that. I don't know of any other options that could help
> here.
>
> H

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