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poplars
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Hey all, I'm running uphucks 1.4i r3, 10.4.9.

 

Actually, I have /all/ working hardware right out of the box, just the drivers on uphucks disc.

 

Anyways, I've been noticing some sluggishness that is kind of bothering me. I often only have 10-30 MB of ram and that's under general use . . . usually in Windows I would have atleast 300MB free if I wasn't doing anything . . . I would expect the same for OSX in some fashion. OSX is also using 5+GB of page file (not sure if I should be concerned or not.)

 

I've also been noticing that 80% of the time I have 200+ MB of physical memory in inactive memory . . . I just wondered what this means. Is it just allocated for applications just in case they need it? or what?

 

I've also noticed some sluggishness for safari, not sure if that's affiliated with the network drivers but it could be, just throwing it out there.

 

Here are the results:

 

Results	61.53	
System Info		
	Xbench Version		1.3
	System Version		10.4.9 (8P2137)
	Physical RAM		768 MB
	Model		ACPI
	Drive Type		ST3320620AS
CPU Test	41.18	
	GCD Loop	75.98	4.01 Mops/sec
	Floating Point Basic	34.50	819.72 Mflop/sec
	vecLib FFT	29.61	976.87 Mflop/sec
	Floating Point Library	47.14	8.21 Mops/sec
Thread Test	85.14	
	Computation	67.74	1.37 Mops/sec, 4 threads
	Lock Contention	114.59	4.93 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test	70.69	
	System	58.55	
		Allocate	44.12	162.03 Kalloc/sec
		Fill	83.22	4046.51 MB/sec
		Copy	60.41	1247.66 MB/sec
	Stream	89.17	
		Copy	86.20	1780.45 MB/sec
		Scale	85.12	1758.55 MB/sec
		Add	93.15	1984.37 MB/sec
		Triad	92.80	1985.20 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test	63.06	
	Line	57.99	3.86 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
	Rectangle	61.17	18.26 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
	Circle	58.60	4.78 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
	Bezier	60.12	1.52 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
	Text	83.31	5.21 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test	57.34	
	Spinning Squares	57.34	72.74 frames/sec
User Interface Test	85.40	
	Elements	85.40	391.92 refresh/sec
Disk Test	53.79	
	Sequential	107.05	
		Uncached Write	88.22	54.16 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	117.21	66.32 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	94.43	27.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	144.73	72.74 MB/sec [256K blocks]
	Random	35.92	
		Uncached Write	12.09	1.28 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	96.01	30.74 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	89.36	0.63 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	141.95	26.34 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

And here is the main link for comparison

 

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=236710&doc2=1

 

Specs in signature.

 

Thanks to those who actually try to help :).

Synaesthesia
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Your result is fine! I wouldn't place too much stock in XBench. It has some discrepancies, particularly in the disk test... Geekbench is better IMO. But it's just a cpu/ram test.

Anyways, I've been noticing some sluggishness that is kind of bothering me. I often only have 10-30 MB of ram and that's under general use . . . usually in Windows I would have atleast 300MB free if I wasn't doing anything . . . I would expect the same for OSX in some fashion. OSX is also using 5+GB of page file (not sure if I should be concerned or not.)

 

I've also been noticing that 80% of the time I have 200+ MB of physical memory in inactive memory . . . I just wondered what this means. Is it just allocated for applications just in case they need it? or what?

Don't be concerned, this is normal.; OS X manages memory differently to windows xp. It caches aggressively and dynamically to maximise memory usage. It frees memory again as needed. You would have 30mb free if you had 256mb of RAM, or 1 gig. The same is true for Windows Vista

I've also noticed some sluggishness for safari, not sure if that's affiliated with the network drivers but it could be, just throwing it out there.

I have heard that Safari 3.0 beta with the nightly build of webkit is apparently much faster. No more spinning disk when you open tabs... (You need the nightly build because it is free of a nasty memory leak in the normal one). I don't have it though!

 

If you don't like beta apps, wait for the official release! Or try other browsers.

poplars
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thanks for the reply. I suppose I'll just have to get used to it, I don't have the most high end system in the world but I just want to make sure OSX is using my system the best it can . . . thanks for the heads up on the nightly builds. I'll check them out.

 

is it possible that leopard might be faster on my system?

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