>Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:46:41 -0800 >From: Kevin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: Pacific Title/Mirage Inc. >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.4 IP30) >X-Accept-Language: en >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: 2 questions (irix mame and network display) >References: <> ><> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Tristram Scott wrote: >> Can some other people try doing remote display of pacman on various platforms >> and report to us a) the frame rates, and b) the TCP bandwidth, and c) how >> heavily loaded the two machines are. > >kevin@piranha 258 : xmame.irix -help >X-Mame (X11) version 0.33b5.1 >Usage: xmame [game] [options] > >Display: 2xR10k Octane > >IRIX64 piranha 6.4 02121744 IP30 Load[1.69,1.76,1.44] 10:35:13 103 procs > user pid pgrp %cpu proc pri size rss time command > guest 1283 0 98.76 1 10 12342 12169 38:22 prman > kevin 1652 1651 89.92 * 20 11045 10622 4:03 fcheck > >Server: 16xR10k Origin 2k >kevin@orca 261 : uptime > 10:36am up 3 days, 2:35, 4 users, load average: 13.48, 14.25, 14.57 > > 1: Interface Statistics -- Oct 30 10:36:06 D: Delta/second > >Name Mtu Network >gig0 1500 10 >hip1 65280 10 > >Name Ipkts Ierrs Ibytes Opkts Oerrs Obytes Coll q drop >gig0 20 0 1160 19 0 11799 0 0 0 >hip1 39 0 4612 117 0 2062585 0 0 0 > >I was suprised by the frame rates that I was getting. It seemed that I >had tried this earlier and gotten different results. But with the Origin >absolutely pegged and my local Octane pretty pegged also, I >got pretty good frame rates. Consistently 100% and when I hit >F10 380%-450% with a peak of +500% and a low around 100%. There's a lot >of network contention on the Origin, all 16 renders are writing out over the >network to the disk server, there's no local drives. It was totally playable. > >-- > >A novice asked the master: "In the east there is a great tree- >structure that men call 'Corporate Headquarters'. It is bloated >out of shape with vice presidents and accountants. It issues a >multitude of memos, each saying 'Go, Hence!' or 'Go, Hither!' and >nobody knows what is meant. Every year new names are put onto the >branches, but all to no avail. How can such an unnatural entity >exist?" > >The master replies: "You perceive this immense structure and are >disturbed that it has no rational purpose. Can you not take >amusement from its endless gyrations? Do you not enjoy the >untroubled ease of programming beneath its sheltering branches? >Why are you bothered by its uselessness?" > > -- from "The Tao of Programming" > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
