CPressland Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 (edited) Well, the script works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNep04e7eI4 Now I'm going to time 5000 on my MacBook and going to post up specs and time in a bit :) EDIT: My MacBook seams to have slowed down to a crawl at 1428 @ 3:45 minutes in. Edited March 11, 2009 by Vegetunks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted March 11, 2009 Veteran Share Posted March 11, 2009 When this thread was first posted last summer I did try launching 1000 Notepad windows on Vista x64. The system just froze up and I had to do a hard reset. :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 10 Minutes later: Decided to kill the script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mokthraka Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 why can I only open notepad 194 times? windows xp sp 2 home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 why can I only open notepad 194 times? windows xp sp 2 home Well, this is what I find amusing. Both Mac OS X and Linux run on a similar windowing system (X) and it seams to be miles ahead of whatever the native Windows Windowing System is. You'd think Windows would be able to keep a fair amount of Windows open at the time time, but, the name goes against itself I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObiWanToby Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 So OSX is great because it can run 1000 text edits. What if I open up 1000 paints on Windows? 1000 notepads just doesn't seem impressive at all. 1000 paints is just insane and unheard of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 People are missing the point here, I'm talking about the X Windowing system here... /sigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giantsnyy Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Beat this... 2.4GHz Core2Duo with 4GB DDR2 iMac 24" @ 1920x1200. Still got 20-30fps in WoW with all that stuff running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted March 11, 2009 Veteran Share Posted March 11, 2009 Notepad may be able to handle that many instances of its window if it didn't create a new process for each opened Notepad instance. I saw those screenshots of TextEdit in OS X's resource monitor; it appears to use the same TextEdit process for all those windows (reference giga's post as an example). There's also a problem with Windows; it was more serious with 9x, but a little less on XP and probably far less in Vista+. By default there's a cap on the number of GDI objects used at once - used to draw menus, controls, buttons, etc. According to Task Manager, Windows 7's Notepad eats up 24 objects per process. If you go on and spawn 1000 Notepads Windows acts funky when it hits the GDI object cap; it's probably somewhere in the tens of thousands. Windows and dialogs fail to draw, even the out of memory error boxes. :s Hopefully someone that knows a bit more about this can clarify. At any rate, realistically speaking no one opens THAT many processes, so it shouldn't be that big of an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyX Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 FAIL for reviving an old thread. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S00N3R FR3AK Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 And you came back to post about it on a forum! Epic Fail! lol win edit wow just saw the necro thought it needed this [ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afusion Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 What does OS X own again? Oh right it can utilize memory just like any other OS can jee wizz.. afusionTM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulCabby Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Screenshot please ;) Yup sure. Didn't have to hard reset it or log out to end it. Just ended the process (no way in hell am I going to click through the 1000 notepad save prompts). Aero turned off automatically. Could change windows, launch Firefox but just quite slow at doing it. I don't have a beast but specs are e6320 @ 2.1 ghz. 3gb ram. 8800 gt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted March 11, 2009 Veteran Share Posted March 11, 2009 Well, this is what I find amusing.Both Mac OS X and Linux run on a similar windowing system (X) and it seams to be miles ahead of whatever the native Windows Windowing System is. You'd think Windows would be able to keep a fair amount of Windows open at the time time, but, the name goes against itself I guess. Someone was able to open over 6000 instances of Notepad in Windows XP. Could be photoshopped though. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furby Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Haha, pressing Shift+Expose was quite a challenge. Only got to 500 2.4Ghz Core2Duo 4GB DDR3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SavvyMan Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I got passed 2000 on a Mac Mini 1.66 Core Duo from 2006, I could of gone on a lot longer but boredom set in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyLock Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I'm new to Macs. Please can you tell me what the shortcut to the screen grab is? I don't like the screen grab application. Anyone know if you can screen grab using a key sequence like in Windows (PrnScn or ALT-PrnScn)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 I'm new to Macs. Please can you tell me what the shortcut to the screen grab is? I don't like the screen grab application. Anyone know if you can screen grab using a key sequence like in Windows (PrnScn or ALT-PrnScn)? CMD+SHIFT+3 is for the entire screen CMD+SHIFT+4 is for drawing a box around something CMD+SHIFT+4 THEN Spacebar allows you to click on an application to screenshot JUST that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damian Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I'm new to Macs. Please can you tell me what the shortcut to the screen grab is? I don't like the screen grab application. Anyone know if you can screen grab using a key sequence like in Windows (PrnScn or ALT-PrnScn)? Whole screen: Shift + CMD + 3 Single window: Shift + CMD + 4, Then press Spacebar (also works for icons, dock & menubar) Shift + CMD + 4: Then click and drag to select the area you want to capture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Both Mac OS X and Linux run on a similar windowing system (X) and it seams to be miles ahead of whatever the native Windows Windowing System is. This isn't even remotely close to true. Mac OS X's doesn't have anything in common with X11. No shared code, no shared protocols, even the fundamental architecture is different. WindowServer has more in common with Windows than it does Linux+x11, so much so that X11 applications on Mac OS X work in a very similar way as they would on Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diffused Mind Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 OS X has a well-written scheduler...what's the big deal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mokthraka Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 Well, this is what I find amusing.Both Mac OS X and Linux run on a similar windowing system (X) and it seams to be miles ahead of whatever the native Windows Windowing System is. You'd think Windows would be able to keep a fair amount of Windows open at the time time, but, the name goes against itself I guess. you dont understand waht im saying I can only OPEN 194 im using only 2-3% cpu(thats with firefox and winamp running also) in other words I could open more but it wont let me I click and it does nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolBits Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 I got bored too and tested 1000 textedit windows :) System was perfectly functional and even expose worked, but i think not all windows were shown :) imac 7,1 20" 2Ghz, 2 Gb ram, ati 2400xt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8INPgnHukN8...re=channel_page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted March 15, 2009 Author Share Posted March 15, 2009 I got bored too and tested 1000 textedit windows :)System was perfectly functional and even expose worked, but i think not all windows were shown :) imac 7,1 20" 2Ghz, 2 Gb ram, ati 2400xt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8INPgnHukN8...re=channel_page *claps hands* nice one. Any other iMac owners wana give the script a spin? P.S. Nice dock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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