Also, are you comparing to Vista 32 or Vista 64?

Cross-platform performance comparison is a thorny issue.

mitch, understand that if you run 2 processes simultaneous off 1 core you wont get the same as 1 process running off 1 core. This process is not lossless. The Q6600 ran 4 cores, you now are trying to compare the performance of that with 8 running on same 4 cores. Switch off hyperthreading and then you know.

I understand that I cannot do a direct comparison, what I am interested in is the amount of work prodcued. As you know from previous posts, I have a few machines (now 18) working on WCG. I have an I7 965 that produces around 45 results a day. The new I7 920 only seens to be doing 23 results per day. My Q6600 and my Q9450 seem to do as much. I would have expected the I7 920 to be somewhere in between the I7 965 and the other two quads. I am going to dedicate this machine to WCG so I want to make sure I have it set up right. This should be my second best performing machine.

Since I have no expierience with Linux, and this is the first time I have used it, I want to make sure that my exepctations are such that a Linux machine should perform as well as a Win Vista machine. I am also interested if there are any Ubuntu options I need to set.

Part of the problem is that maybe I am too impatient, as I only build this machine on April 2. Maybe it needs more time to get going!

- Mitch

I did not realize that was a suggestion. I know nothing about linuix so I did not recognize that as commands. I am really a windows guy (DOS and OS/2....I am that old! :)).

I entered the commands in a terminal emulator and a lot of stuff happened. When I tried the first command I got an error, "Continue without valid swap". I replied no, is that the right response.

The second command had no errors.
Thanks,
Mitch