<div dir="ltr"><div><div>> "Hyperthreading" isn't all it's cracked up to be. In theory it's<br>> supposed to help a lot, in practice it can actually slow down a machine,<br>> as you've seen.<br>
<br></div>I know eh ? I was frankly very taken aback when instead of things speeding up, things started slowing down more :-)<br><br>> As a gentoo user myself, I would *NOT* recommend gentoo as the cure for<br>> your problem...<br>
<br>> 1) Gentoo is source-based, you will be compiling kernels and everything<br>> else you update. If you dislike doing an occasional kernel rebuild,<br>> forget gentoo. There's recompiling of various applications and<br>
> libraries each update (say approx every 2 weeks).<br><br></div>I have no issues compiling kernels or other sources, just do not want compiling to take half a day :-)<br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<div><br>> 2) A gentoo-optimized machine will be somewhat faster, but your machine<br>> has no business running blender. I had an Intel Core 2 with onboard<br>> Intel GPU, and it had problems keeping up with NHL Gamecentre Live on<br>
> the slowest stream. Sorry, you need a newer more powerful machine...<br>> period... end of story.<br><br></div><div class="im">I can't afford an upgrade right now, so am stuck with what I have. And agreed fully i had no business running blender on this hardware but I am a firm believer that necessity is the mother of invention. Quite by accident I found that setting the resolution percentage to 50% will render the scene <strong>4 times faster</strong>! <br>
<br>And you try explaining to a little child why their greeting card is not ready as promised in 3d with all the bells n whistles ? Ever have a female give you dat why don't you drop dead like yesterday look ( the kids elder sister and my very good friend who said don make promises you cant keep Aruna. I made damn sure I kept this one! This is why am here and alive right now :))) <br>
<br>Am a sucker for kids, so shoot me :-) worth the hassle and time to see their faces light up with absolute glee... <br><br>> 1) gnome (even the classic version) is a resource hog. Can you switch<br>> to a "mere" window manager like ICEWM? Doing that should provide a bit<br>
> of a performance boost.<br><br></div><div class="im">Yes there is a lot of bloat in any Ubuntu distro I guess because it is designed to work out of the box but we dont need all the drivers, this is why I was trying to compile and roll my own kernel. I will have a look at ICEWM thank's.<br>
<br>> kill -15 <PID><br><br></div><div class="im">Am running compiz that may be hogging resources too, will try the PID and kill thank's<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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