Re: Threads, Sockets and OSX
Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]>
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> On Dec 7, 2018, at 9:04 AM, Peter Hickman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a second Mac of lower spec and slightly older version of OSX (2 CPUs vs 4 CPUs, 10.13.6 vs 10.14.1), I'll check that out ... > > It does the 100% usage followed by 0% usage that my main computer does but the 100% usage can last minutes rather than seconds and the 0% usage runs between 5 and 15 seconds. Overall it completes the test faster because it spends less time at 0% usage > > One possible difference is that the main computer has a normal disk and the older machine has an SSD. I've been wondering if it's some OSX background task that is kicking and and slowing things down. If it was disk bound then the SSD would get past that bottleneck much faster (not to mention far fewer files on my second mac) > > To test this thesis I would need to install an SSD in my main computer, which is very, very tempting :) > Don’t think about this at all. I have a 11 year old Mac Pro with an SSD and 32GB RAM as my “daily driver”, and aside from not being able to update to the latest OS, the performance is exemplary. Walter > > Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > <http://lists.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ruby-talk> Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> <http://lists.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ruby-talk>