2006-01-31 `mencoder' from mplayer-1.0pre7try2 linux-2.6.15 on box and gnu, linux-2.6.11x on magsim Task: re-encode avi file (mencoder), to 450kbpsV and 45kbpsA gnu: P4-HT, 512KB-L2, 2.6GHz 1-process: 63s 2-processes: 101s each (user time on pseudo-(HT)CPU) magsim: 2xXeon-HT 1MB-L2, 3.0GHz 1-process: 59s [note: also running matlab (100%) but on other real CPU] box: amd64 3500+, 2.2GHz 1-process: 55s (this is apparently independent of whether the generic 32-bit binary or the specific 64-bit version is used!) [note: `box' was running amule and tvtime as well]