Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 11:53 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > The result is that on some particular types of computations, the G5 > > performs extremely bad: something like twice slower as an old 1.5 Ghz > > Celeron machine. Fo

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 17:56 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 11:53 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > > > The result is that on some particular types of computations, the G5 > > > performs extremely bad: someth

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 11:53 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > The result is that on some particular types of computations, the G5 > > performs extremely bad: something like twice slower as an old 1.5 Ghz > > Celeron machine. For s

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 11:53 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > The result is that on some particular types of computations, the G5 > performs extremely bad: something like twice slower as an old 1.5 Ghz > Celeron machine. For some other tests, the performances of the > processors scale with the freq

Lenny Xserve-G5 Cluster Node install failure

2008-08-03 Thread Marc Zyngier
People, I finally found some time to give Lenny a run on my Xserve-G5 (Dual 2GHz, Cluster Node version). Just for the record, installing Debian (or anything non-MacOSX) on this box is not exactly easy, as there is no optical drive and no way to boot it reliably over the network. I ended-up writi