[linux-help] Re: Dual processors

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

Linux and Gimp has been used recently in movies like Shrek & the 
animation with the horses, I don't remember the name.  They used linux 
for the backend servers and gimp for some of the rendering and animation 
and it helped them save a lot of money.  They discovered that linux is 
more efficient at managing memory that NT based OS.  There are still 
some graphics processes that gimp can't do that photoshop does, so they 
still use photoshop for some things.  Atleast thats what I remember from 
the article from Disney.  I don't remember if I still have the link or 
not to the article.  Atleast linux had a very favorable review.  
 ~Anne :-)

lowell wrote:

>I knew that photoshop was smp friendly, hence Apple's propensity for dp 
>power macs and g3's/4's; didn't realize the gimp was that way too...
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>Koji Hayakawa wrote:
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
>>>Behalf Of Anne McCadden
>>>Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 9:43 PM
>>>To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
>>>Subject: [linux-help] Re: Dual processors
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>>>GIMP and photoshop, especially when
>>>using intensive rendering and animations are also designed to use more
>>>than one processor.
>>>
>>>
>>I had an impression that processes such as image manipulation, video
>>processing, and audio processing are rather I/O intensive, and get more help
>>
>>from faster disks.  Sure, having fast processors would help too, but with
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>>such processes that uses swap spaces heavily would tend to suffer from disk
>>I/O bottle neck.  Striping type of RAID would aid such process nicely.
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