OS-X cap
What your benchmarks suggest to me is that maybe Apple is purposely capping the maximum wattage for battery life/thermal reasons.
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Originally posted by jntesteves View PostHi Michael, there's some small problems in the graphs generated by PTS:
On the OpenArena, Nexuiz, John The Ripper graphs it's writen Milliwatts, Higher Is Better;
The last graph doesn't say which one is better;
The C-Ray graph doesn't show the end of Ubuntu's timeline.
And I think you should use something like Higher-Lower instead of Higher-Less, but that is just an opinion and I'm not the best with english anyway.
Keep up the good work
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BSD and Linux
The BSD/Mach memory management backend on MacOSX throttles more of the major processes when compared to Linux's allot and swap scenarios.
The schedulers are vastly different. BSD/Mach seems to handle heavy loads where for a long time Linux's standard practice was to cease up until the task was completed.
My facts are only seen by the individual who is willing to install both and witness for themselves.
Copy a Nine-Gigabyte file from one folder to another. Applications will still open on BSD/Mach. Within Thirty seconds you'll be unable to do anything on Linux.
File-systems can also request a large amount of processor power. But it's up to the memory management and scheduling to throttle that request down the queue.
I for one will be glad when Torvalds, Moln?r, and crew go to Best Buy and buy a consumer model PC and witness for themselves what everyone has been putting up with for 10 years.
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Originally posted by Ragas View Postespecially when they are on battery power.
Whereby samplig actually is a technique to measure signals that are faster than the measuring instrument.
So a sampling faster than the signal to be measured is not quite sampling anymore.
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Originally posted by Peterix View PostMost people don't run benchmarks or CPU/GPU intensive tasks all day after all.
Originally posted by iro_ View PostSince you must have a sampling rate that's higher than the frequency of the phenomenon you are trying to measure, you can't really do that.
So a sampling faster than the signal to be measured is not quite sampling anymore.
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Originally posted by Shining Arcanine View PostDo you have a reference that shows that this effect is significant when it comes to Lithium Ion batteries. I was under the impression that the discharge efficiency of Lithium Ion batteries is relatively flat in the temperatures and loads usually exerted on them.
scroll down to "Discharge Rates" illustrates the effect of capacity offset
If you look carefully the Phoronix results it is visible that Ubuntu don't have any power budget cap and OS X has. The power usage under Ubuntu is jumping all over, but OS X is much flatter. Apple has implemented power cap on kernel level. And I am sure this is because Apple had set battery life as priority. Other manufactures have other priorities like better performance. I think this opens opportunity for other manufactures to distinguish their offerings from the competition.
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Originally posted by Shining Arcanine View PostDo you have a reference that shows that this effect is significant when it comes to Lithium Ion batteries. I was under the impression that the discharge efficiency of Lithium Ion batteries is relatively flat in the temperatures and loads usually exerted on them.
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Originally posted by sal-e View PostThis is very true when you have unlimited power source with static efficiency. But here we are talking about battery. The battery capacity (Ah or mAh) is specified at optimal discharge current (Id). If you discharge the battery with greater current the battery heats up and it capacity drops rather quickly. So I suspect that Apple engineers has reduced the max/avg load by slowing down the "OS X" in order to optimize the battery capacity. Ubuntu and other distribution engineers don't have the needed data in order to do the same. They just optimize for speed. I wish I had the knowledge of the kernel and slowly over time to build library of profiles that every Linux user can use to have maximum battery life if they want.
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Originally posted by jsantala View PostYou should however take into consideration the "rush to idle" factor - even though Linux uses much more peak power it also finishes in a fraction of the time OS X used to complete the task, which means that completing task might have actually used much less power overall in Linux than it did on OS X. The Linux box could idle (or even sleep/shutdown) when OS X would still be hard at work, thus using very little power.
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