Re: [CinCVS] hardware question

2007-12-30 Thread Christian Thaeter
Scott C. Frase wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 20:27 +0100, Christian Thaeter wrote: Cinelerra has some race problems between threads which let them wait on each other doing nothing, this is hard to fix unfortunally. But generally I think adding more CPU's will add some performance improvement.

Re: [CinCVS] hardware question

2007-12-30 Thread Scott C. Frase
Imo waste of time, I know some of the code and (see condition.C) it might be evolved due workaround problems in early linuxthread implementations but it is horribly ugly and broken by design. In a experimental branch I started to add my 'NoBug' library with a resource/deadlock checker to

Re: [CinCVS] hardware question

2007-12-30 Thread E Chalaron
Hi all, Just to carry on with my initial post regarding hardware. Considering that I just need power to render, not for editing (which seems to trigger the problem with multi cpus), I always thought that getting a rendering farm of PS3 could be smart ? I am most probably not aware of potential

Re: [CinCVS] hardware question

2007-12-30 Thread Christian Thaeter
E Chalaron wrote: Hi all, Just to carry on with my initial post regarding hardware. Considering that I just need power to render, not for editing (which seems to trigger the problem with multi cpus), I always thought that getting a rendering farm of PS3 could be smart ? I am most probably

Re: [CinCVS] hardware question

2007-12-29 Thread Scott C. Frase
On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 11:45 -0600, Timothy Baldridge wrote: Your disk performance may be holding you back as well. On the oil effect, you are CPU bound, on a faster effect (e.g. grayscale) you will be primarily IO bound. Here's an example. Only recently (in the past 3 years) has Discreet moved

Re: [CinCVS] hardware question

2007-12-29 Thread Christian Thaeter
Scott C. Frase wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 11:45 -0600, Timothy Baldridge wrote: Your disk performance may be holding you back as well. On the oil effect, you are CPU bound, on a faster effect (e.g. grayscale) you will be primarily IO bound. Here's an example. Only recently (in the past 3

Re: [CinCVS] hardware question

2007-12-29 Thread Scott C. Frase
On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 20:27 +0100, Christian Thaeter wrote: Cinelerra has some race problems between threads which let them wait on each other doing nothing, this is hard to fix unfortunally. But generally I think adding more CPU's will add some performance improvement. While in doubt, you may

[CinCVS] hardware question

2007-12-27 Thread E Chalaron
Hello Just wondering about a config for a new machine. With the quad cores coming up I am wondering if I should invest in an average quad core or a good duo, being tied to a budget. Basically my question is would a FBS 1333 with a duo core 3Ghz be faster than a 2.4 Ghz quad core 1066 FBS, all

Re: [CinCVS] hardware question

2007-12-27 Thread Scott C. Frase
Hi E, My opinions are based upon only twenty-four hours of real editing time, so I haven't had the chance to test all of Cinelerra's effects, but I'll give you a quick summary of my impressions. I bought a Dell SC1430, 64-bit Intel dual quad core running at 1.6Ghz. Since Cinelerra is optimized

Re: [CinCVS] hardware question

2007-12-27 Thread Timothy Baldridge
Your disk performance may be holding you back as well. On the oil effect, you are CPU bound, on a faster effect (e.g. grayscale) you will be primarily IO bound. Here's an example. Only recently (in the past 3 years) has Discreet moved to x86. Before that they were selling their highest end product