On 1/5/06, Brian D. McGrew <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I know this is the Fedora, not Java list; but I'm not getting any help
> over there!
>
> Speaking from a hardware standpoint, we distribute our systems on Dell
> PowerEdge 1800 Server machines and we're limited (by our own hardware)
> to 512MB RAM. It stands to reason that these machines don't have very
> beefy graphics support in them. Low end nVidia or ATI chipsets at best!
>
> We're doing some work in Java, running under Sun's JVM and driving the
> graphics card with images while the CPU is at a decent load. As our
> images grow in size the drawing slows down. The 640x480 stuff is good,
> the 1280x1280 stuff is alright but the 2048x2048 is unusable.
>
> >From a hardware / (operating system) software standpoint, what would you
> do to speed things up? I can't add memory; we don't have any open slots
> to add in another graphics card and using a workstation model machine
> with better graphics isn't a choice either.
>
> Any ideas???
>
1. Tell your boss the project is in trouble because the Dell does not
have the requisite performance capabilities that is required.
2. If you are the person who specified the Dell prepare your resume.
You are using low end graphics chipsets which share the memory with
the host processor and are less capable than stand-a-lone plugin in
cards. Why would you expect decent performance when you increased the
amount of data by a factor of four?
> TIA,
>
> -brian
>
> Brian D. McGrew { brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx || brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx }
>
