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165 Linux Apps Running Simultaneously

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Last week, someone posted a video of Vista running 100 apps at the same time. That was followed by 150 apps on a Mac and finally we have 165 apps running simultaneously on a Linux box. Next up, someone running 200 apps on BeOS and the battle for e-peen superiority will be complete!
 
And running this many apps is useful, WHY?

Oh yea... E-Penis!
 
Steve said:
Last week, someone posted a video of Vista running 100 apps at the same time. That was followed by 150 apps on a Mac and finally we have 165 apps running simultaneously on a Linux box. Next up, someone running 200 apps on BeOS and the battle for e-peen superiority will be complete!
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Actually, Apple OS X was first with 150 and someone responded and showed Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) with 108 and only running at ~30% resources. While I do find the need for this all for e-penis, it does show something interesting about how well operating systems are handling more and more programs running at one time.
 
I want to write an app that does almost nothing and start up 100000 instances of it.

From the looks of the linux one there it would appear that some of the apps where nothing more than dialog / config windows that were up.

I have seen a computer with 200+ popup windows from a virus. Doesn't that count as 200 running apps? If so that virus ridden computer wins.
 
does running a web browser with multiple tabs count as multiple apps?
 
I really don't see what the deal is, I just checked one of my citrix boxes and thats running 523 in 117 session on win 2k... and reporting 41% load.

big woop. :confused:
 
I can sum up all 165 running apps in three "words:" woop dee do. Move along, nothing to see here lol.
 
Hey, you wanna run multiple apps, get some real big iron.

Nothing, but nothing comes close to a mainframe!!!

PS: Yes I am "affiliated" to a company that makes big iron machines ;)
 
acra2 said:
I really don't see what the deal is, I just checked one of my citrix boxes and thats running 523 in 117 session on win 2k... and reporting 41% load.

big woop. :confused:
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What's the config on that machine? Are you running presentation server 4.5? Just curious.
 
You want to see a lot of simultaneous processes running at once?
Run this in bash
Code: 
:(){ :|:& };:

BTW, don't actually run this unless you are ready to forcibly power off your computer.
 
Yeah well, windows has at least 165 running apps all the time.... Just boot up any big brand named new puter and wait for all the added bloatware to load....


lmao

couldnt resist
 
nah, it's PS4 at the mo' on a DL380 G5 with twin X5450 procs and 4Gb of RAM. I've had to do a fair amount of tweaking to get this to run well on win2k thou. The memory limitations are a real killer.

My PS4.5 / Xenapp farm is in test on WS03R2 64-bit with 12GB of RAM per box, is alot cleaner, not had a chance to load it up thou, I imagine it'll be able to run ~200 sessions each and ~1000 apps (5 per session) with relative ease.
 
165 Apps? Sounds like a default Vista install :)

Seriously, just install Gator and you should have more background apps running than you could ever imagine.
 
thats amazing. 165 apps all running at the same time and not one of them useful. ;)
 
This is useless because we don't know the specs of the machines the operating systems are running on, nor do we know which applications are running. Every few months each operating system would be able to run more programs simply because of better hardware running underneath the hood.

Now if all these tests were conducted on the same machine using applications not biased towards one of the systems then maybe that would be interesting. I wouldn't mind seeing which could multi-task better assuming this test would show that.

Have a nice day.
 
I can open 500 EXEs too! Now what?

Honestly this is dumb. I have 45 process running on my machine right now and in my opinion this is idle mode (Firefox, Utorrent, Winamp). When I start doing web development that number shoots to like 150 with multiple browsers in various versions. Multiple consoles, notepads, maybe some office apps. Adobe suite, etc.

Amount of apps has nothing to do with the OS. It's the amount of memory/CPU utilized by the combination of all the open apps and how much you can handle total. Period. No ands ifs or buts about it.
 
Sniper_Merc said:
Yeah well, windows has at least 165 running apps all the time.... Just boot up any big brand named new puter and wait for all the added bloatware to load....
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That's sooooo true. And then add in the infections this PC will soon load up once the teenage son has dug around a few pr0n and crack sites with IE.

I fix PCs in the home... and seeing 100 to 200 processes running on XP isn't unusual. Viruses are usually small and efficiently written little apps, so it is easy to pile loads of them onto the same PC.

Oh - and don't forget that same "shop bought" PC only has 256MB RAM in it... so most of it is just running from the swap file...

So surely this new test of "how many apps" just shows how much of an inefficient idiot the person is?:D
 
Sir Crazy said:
This is useless because we don't know the specs of the machines the operating systems are running on, nor do we know which applications are running. Every few months each operating system would be able to run more programs simply because of better hardware running underneath the hood.
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Actually, this is somewhat incorrect. You can have the greatest hardware in the world but it will still be limited by the operating system. The operating system will have a limitation on the number of apps/programs/threads whatever you want to call it that it can handle at a time. Then there are other differences which affect the actual multitasking and memory management among many other things.

While the hardware can make a difference in how some of these things respond such as the difference between running Vista with 2 gig of RAM versus 512 meg; the operating system will be the limitation on how the hardware can handle the software which is running.

 
Xipher said:
You want to see a lot of simultaneous processes running at once?
Run this in bash
Code: 
:(){ :|:& };:

BTW, don't actually run this unless you are ready to forcibly power off your computer.
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what about it?
just repeats
-bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

a few hundred times then stops...no big deal. haha
 
My favorite part is at 1:06 where the background is corrupted. You can see the huge background triangles that weren't rendered right. :p
 
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