I am having a problem running a piece of code with Matlab 2014a with a Ubuntu 16.04 installation. The computer running Ubuntu performs worse than my laptop running Windows 7, in that the same piece of code takes over twice as long to run on the computer with Ubuntu (~ 50 minutes for computer with Ubuntu, 23 minutes for laptop with Windows) for reasons that I don't understand. There are no differences in the code between comparisons.
The hardware for the computer with Ubuntu is an intel core i7-4770 cpu @ 3.4 GHz (8 cores) with 32 Gb of ram. The hardware for the laptop running Windows 7 is an intel core i5-3427U cpu @ 1.8 GHz (4 cores) with 4 Gb of ram.
The benchmark results for the laptop with Windows 7 is not great:
While the benchmark results for the computer with Ubuntu are much better:
I did try increasing the Java heap memory to see if this would speed things up on the ubuntu computer. I also tried increasing the process priority with the command "renice" but that didn't change anything. My complaint is that the computer running Ubuntu takes much longer to run the same code, but I don't have any errors or anything else to go off of besides comparing run times. I'm quite confused as to why I see worse performance with a more powerful machine, and I would appreciate any insight or help with the problem, thanks!
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