blinggam
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- Jul 27, 2017
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I almost don't want to share this because I'm afraid the "fix" may break something on Windows 7 (please don't), but here you can see the ultimate proof of what I was talking about in my previous posts. It took me weeks to actually acquire a 7940x, as the first time I got scammed by Amazon (someone had returned the wrong processor in the box, they sent me a 7-year old Xeon. Second time the company sent me a .50 cent Chinese pedometer instead of the processor, finally ordered directly from an Intel authorized distributor).
After 30+ minutes of running 2x Link Extractors on 500 threads each, 30s timeout, I'm at a minimum CPU usage of 10% per instance, and not even enough load for Windows to unpark half of the cores on the i9-7940x.
At this point on the Threadripper 1950x + Windows 10, I would've been at 100% CPU on all 32 cores. Note, these are the exact same settings. I have now tested my theory on 4 CPUs with the exact same settings on Windows 7 vs Windows 10.
You can take away what you want from this data, but analyzing the threads, my ultimate conclusion is that Windows 7 allows this add on to more freely (and less securely) access the kernel files that it needs to process data, whereas Windows 10 forces it to be more resource-intensive as a trade off for being "more secure".
All in all, it was absolutely worth paying $500 more to be able to run Link Extractor on Windows 7.
After 30+ minutes of running 2x Link Extractors on 500 threads each, 30s timeout, I'm at a minimum CPU usage of 10% per instance, and not even enough load for Windows to unpark half of the cores on the i9-7940x.
At this point on the Threadripper 1950x + Windows 10, I would've been at 100% CPU on all 32 cores. Note, these are the exact same settings. I have now tested my theory on 4 CPUs with the exact same settings on Windows 7 vs Windows 10.
You can take away what you want from this data, but analyzing the threads, my ultimate conclusion is that Windows 7 allows this add on to more freely (and less securely) access the kernel files that it needs to process data, whereas Windows 10 forces it to be more resource-intensive as a trade off for being "more secure".
All in all, it was absolutely worth paying $500 more to be able to run Link Extractor on Windows 7.