James Wilkinson wrote:
Roo wrote:
Saying that software which fully utilises the CPU has a DEFECT is witless drivelling of the worst kind.
Mike McCarty wrote:
It is not, because Linux is not intended to utilize the CPU like that.
That is an extraordinary claim. Absolutely extraordinary.
It seems perfectly natural to me.
Are you *seriously* suggesting that Linux computers are not meant to run processor-intensive code?
Read what I wrote very carefully.
I said that *LINUX* is not intended to utilize the CPU like that. I said nothing about applications which might be written for Linux. I said that the OS itself is not supposed to be CPU intensive.
That seems perfectly natural and unremarkable to me.
My machine normally runs 4% to 8% utilization, most of that being in X.
That is completely irrelevant.
No, it is not, because it shows that Linux itself is not CPU intensive. I stated above that Linux was not intended to be CPU intensive, and I provided evidence that it actually is not CPU intensive.
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Are you seriously suggesting that people should not do 3D games, media encoding, scientific applications or compiling on Linux?
I seriously said what I said, but not what you read into it.
Mike