At Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:14:38 -0500, Thanhvu Nguyen wrote: > > Hi, I hope my question is not too off topic here since Debian is a popular > choice in scientific computing lab and therefore hopefully someone will > have experience with Matlab running on it. Also since I am considering > getting Matlab 7.0 on my Debian home machine so probably this is the right > group to ask in. > > > My question is about the Performance of Matlab running on Linux vs on > Windows. I have seen Matlab 6.5 running on Linux *twice* as slow as on > Windows, e.g a 30 minute routine runs on Matlab 6.5 Windows take an hour > or more on Matlab 6.5 Linux (same machine specs of course) > > What's your experience ? how is the performance of Matlab 7.0 on Linux vs > Windows ? >
I've run matlab 6.1, 6.5 and 7.0 on linux and windows. From experience its faster on linux then on windows as long as you don't hit the swap. Haven't timed it but I've been told that matlab on linux swap is much slower then on windows swap for some reason. On the other hand I tried running the same routine on a 1.3G AMD Athlon laptopn with 256M ram running linux and on a 1.8G pentium IV with 2G ram running windows side by side and they finished almost together. Did you by chance run matlab on a multiuser linux machine? before you compare times you need to make sure you are not running any intensive processes in the background as it will throw your timing of. You could also try matlabs profiling routines to get more reliable timing (taking into account other processes). > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
