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From: Peter Clifton <pcjc2@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: less load less performance
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:01:13 +0000
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On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 17:44 +0100, Alexey Fisher wrote:
> Hallo all,
> 
> As i can understand if cpu do not get enough load it will work mostly in
> C4 mode and graphic perfome slow too. I think there is some thing wrong
> in this logic :)

Yes, a little messed up.. try running your test at low screen-res with
this app running (once per core):

int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
  while (1);
}

(gcc loop.c -o loop)

Do you get the high frames per second (non-full-screen) then?

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