Posting on Geekhack: How much RAM and CPU does it take?

[microsoft windows]

As of now, I am using my Gateway2000 with Windows NT 4.0 and Internet Explorer 6.

RAM usage: 42mb
CPU clock: 200 Mhz
CPU usage: Average: 12%

What's your system taking up when you're posting here? Is there anything running in the background? What browser and operating system are you using? I'm interested.

[microsoft windows]

I just went into Task Manager and looked at the RAM usage and averaged out the CPU usage readings.

Here's a screen shot if it helps.

[Phaedrus2129]

Q9550 running Vista
1% 2.49GB
(I've got other stuff running... Steam, Pidgin, MSE, SuperAntiSpyware, Logitech Setpoint, MagicISO, AutoHotKey)


Athlon XP 2600+ running Ubuntu 10.04
8% 420MB

[Phaedrus2129]

0% sounds better.  Mine must be faster.

CPU COCK FIGHT.


LinX says 45GFLOPS biatch.

[microsoft windows]

Your CPU's could beat the crap out of my Pentium.

[Superfluous Parentheses]

If your OS doesn't isn't using pretty much all RAM while running, you're relying on disk operations way too much. RAM is there anyway, use it for disc caching and **** like that.

For instance, of my 2 Gb of RAM, ~ 1.5 Gb is disk cache at the moment and ~ 50 Mb is free (that is, totally unused).

cat /proc/meminfo:
MemTotal:        2056880 kB
MemFree:           56416 kB
Buffers:           13972 kB
Cached:          1456992 kB
SwapCached:         2120 kB
Active:           981496 kB
Inactive:         938716 kB
Active(anon):     246104 kB
Inactive(anon):   205496 kB
Active(file):     735392 kB
Inactive(file):   733220 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:       1173748 kB
HighFree:           2976 kB
LowTotal:         883132 kB
LowFree:           53440 kB
SwapTotal:       9775544 kB
SwapFree:        9764128 kB
Dirty:             24368 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:        447380 kB
Mapped:            44260 kB
Shmem:              2352 kB
Slab:              43636 kB
SReclaimable:      33960 kB
SUnreclaim:         9676 kB
KernelStack:        1896 kB
PageTables:         3024 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:    10803984 kB
Committed_AS:     871096 kB
VmallocTotal:     122880 kB
VmallocUsed:       61544 kB
VmallocChunk:      25140 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       4096 kB
DirectMap4k:       12280 kB
DirectMap4M:      892928 kB

See http://unixfoo.blogspot.com/2008/02/know-about-procmeminfo.html

[iMav]

Posting this with my mid-2009, 13.3" MacBook Pro.  2.26Ghz Core2Duo, 8GB RAM, 500GB hdd (7200rpm).

Resource usage while posting doesn't seem all that interesting.  How about a geekbench score?

Here's mine while posting to geekhack.

Here's mine with nothing else running.  (I wonder if my i7 laptop can top it?)

[Phaedrus2129]

Not particularly comprehensive. No GPU benchmark for instance. And I prefer LinPack based programs for CPU benching. But ok.
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/280957
5934

[EverythingIBM]

I'm running on my 300GL at 666 Mhz. Satan inside!
Using around 200 MB of RAM, paging 150. Firefox.

[Superfluous Parentheses]

By the way, my Android phone shows about 30 Mb out of ~ 260 Mb used for programs (not cache etc) while browsing this site.

[iMav]

i7 laptop scores a 5219:
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/280961

Not bad.

[Oqsy]

mah iphone load it are fastr wif mah appz and such az!

[D-EJ915]

2.2ghz http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=281012
1ghz http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=281014

apparently AMD is the way to go if you want to sharpen images it blew the pants off of ripsters intel lol

[British]

This site is weird...
7099 - http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/282732

That's with Foobar2k playing in the back and Firefox 3.6.8 with 191 tabs (though only a dozen loaded, gotta love BarTab).
Oh and of course I'm not gonna pay for this, so it doesn't take into account my 64bit-ness (I guess there's a whole lot of us).
Bleh.

[microsoft windows]

2.2ghz http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=281012
1ghz http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=281014

apparently AMD is the way to go if you want to sharpen images it blew the pants off of ripsters intel lol

Well, for Internet browsing, anything over 100Mhz is enough.

[EverythingIBM]

Damn, I knew my aging rig would be beaten soon.  I'm still waiting to go 8 core before upgrading my lowly 3.6Ghz Q6700 - AVCHD video editing would be the only real app that needs it though.

And I refuse to go water cooled.  Those OCN people are weirder than the Vintage Computing guys.

8 Cores won't do anything for you rippy, consumer software isn't programmed to handle it.

[Phaedrus2129]

Well, for Internet browsing, anything over 100Mhz is enough.

Yes, but I find you need at least 1600MHz to watch 360p video smoothly, and 2200MHz helps if it's 480p.

[EverythingIBM]

I worship at the altar of Adobe.

So you must be a freemason then?


EDIT:

Unlike IBM they still support the PC business.

You can still buy a System X tower from IBM and deck it out as a PC. You can get a fairly decent one for $2000.

[EverythingIBM]

Probably slower than my current PC.  I'll wait.

Considering they can hold two CPUs, I'd vouch they're faster for processing. Two processors are better than one. Especially two quad core processors.

[ch_123]

Depends on what software you are running.

Knowing IBM, $2,000 probably buys you a low end model with a single CPU...

[keyboardlover]

I worship at the altar of Adobe.

Unlike IBM they still support the PC business.

Try getting support from them when u try to integrate their software with yours...had a lot of headaches with that in the past...

Sent from my ADR6300 using Tapatalk

[zmurf]

Workbench 1.3
Fully multitasking OS on:
7.14MHz CPU
512kB RAM

WIN!

[microsoft windows]

Were you posting on the forum on that machine?

[EverythingIBM]

Depends on what software you are running.

Knowing IBM, $2,000 probably buys you a low end model with a single CPU...

Hey how did you guess? =p
Well my theory was buy the lowest model, chuck out the single processor IBM puts in, and put two high end ones in yourself for cheap. You'd have to buy a heatsink of course. Probably will be more than the processor lol.

It comes with 2 GB of RAM, so, you'd only need two more for something decent.

So that's a way to get IBM quality, for half the price... if you don't want to buy used.

[microsoft windows]

I'd just rather not buy it but find it in the computer garbage at work.

[chimera15]

Cool benchmarking site.  See this is why I need an i7, my systems are all around 2500.  Sucks. sigh

[ch_123]

Hey how did you guess? =p
Well my theory was buy the lowest model, chuck out the single processor IBM puts in, and put two high end ones in yourself for cheap. You'd have to buy a heatsink of course. Probably will be more than the processor lol.

It comes with 2 GB of RAM, so, you'd only need two more for something decent.

So that's a way to get IBM quality, for half the price... if you don't want to buy used.

A machine that is intended for single CPU configurations only will only have a single socket motherboard. IBM being IBM, you can bet that the case is designed in such a way that a twin socket motherboard cannot be inserted. The thing may well not have any PCI-E 16x slots for a graphics card. Some models may not even have any sort of graphics capability at all.

The things that make IBM servers high quality compared with other brands are irrelevant if you are using it as a desktop PC.

[chimera15]

My highest result was with my gateway 141xl, which has a t8300 in it for about 2600.  I have 3 desktops with c2d's at the same frequency of 2.4 and all got less.  My most powerful relative system with the best memory and running a gtx 260 got the worst result of the 4 units of the same generation.  How is that?  I guess cause it's running windows 7 and the others are xp... hmm

Pretty interesting.  Here's the same configuration as my my p5n-e sli mobo with the same processor that's been oc'd.  

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/205646

Mine is about 2300 right now, my lowest score.  Suppose I should oc it....

[chimera15]

Posting this on my oqo 1+.  This is the lowest power unit I currently have in regular operation.  Anything lower than this I have mothballed.

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/282878

This is the unit I built my wireless minitouch for.  Really love using it occasionally, and my ultimate goal was to build a wearable pc with it, but it really gets too hot to do that unfortunately.

It's got 512mb and 1000 mhz transmeta crusoe processor, so relatively still pretty powerful.

It's great for doing thumbnail sketches on since it has a wacom penabled tablet in it.  

It's still I believe the smallest, and most powerful full Windows pc ever made since the oqo 2 was a significant size increase.

[chimera15]

Pretty interesting:  

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/search?q=oqo

My oqo 1+ bench's roughly the same as the via oqo 2 processor.  Woulda never thought that.

I love how the benchmark called it a oqo zepto.  I've never seen these units called Zepto anywhere before.  Wonder where it came from.  Reminds me of the fallout 3 pip boy kinda. lol

Interesting:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/zepto-computers-files-for-bankruptcy/

They used the same font that the oqo used.  I wonder if they actually manufactured the mobos for the oqo.