Do you have an anti-virus software running? That's about what I see when
Sophos is switched on.
On 9 Sep 2003, michaell taylor wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to figure out why a new machine is running my R script so
> slowly.
>
> The script was developed on a Linux , dual 2.8 xeon processor machine
> with 4GB ram. On this machine, the script runs in about an hour (it
> creates lots of multilevel simulations). While running, 100% of a single
> processor (50% of dual processor) is used consistently during the entire
> run, about 800 MB of ram is utilized. Xeon hyperthread condition
> (on/off) seems not to matter to performance. While the script runs, I
> am using the "other" processor for miscellaneous emailing,
editing, etc.
>
> Moving the script to a windows XP machine with nearly identical hardware
> configuration (2.8 dual xeon, 4.5 GB ram) the script takes nearly 2
> hours. Oddly, the maximum cpu load on this machine is 50% of a single
> processor (25% of dual processor) during the run - which seems
> consistent with the doubling of total processing time. While running
> this script, this machine does no other tasks whatsoever.
The last is very, very unlikely.
> Both machines have at least double the memory required for the task,
> both utilize fast scsi drives and all data is stored locally on the
> drive (no data on network drives). Moreover, being a simulated problem,
> very little data is read/written to drives during the process.
>
> Anyone have ideas as to why the Windows machine is so slow?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Michaell Taylor
>
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