Ron Johnson wrote: > > Is this an 6x86 P150 or an 800MHz Athlon? Or is the win2k > box the 800MHz Athlon? > > Some musings: > - how much RAM on the win2k box? > - On my 1GHz Athlon, I see X spiking up to 60% CPU at times. > (Yes, I run X4.1, Gnome 1.2 and mozilla 1.0rc3. > - Do you run gnome 1.2 or 1.4? > - mozilla is pretty slow to load on my win2k box that only > has 128MB RAM. > - On such an old machine, best to use a light weight window > manager instead of a big, fat windowing environment (and > gnome is much slimmer than KDE!) Try fvwm2, blackbox, > or xfce.
The specs of the Win2K machine (Athlon 800 Mhz, 256 MB) are irrelevat really, I was just using it compare the render speeds of Mozilla on the two machines. Debian is installed on the 6x86 (P150, 112MB.) I will try some slimmer window managers. I know these programs need a lot of RAM but with Gnome+Sawfish+Mozilla loaded, I still have 15-20MB free RAM (accoring to 'top') so the memory footprint is not really the issue. The problem is that simple things like moving/resizing a window, drawing a menu, or repainting the background can be very slow. I was hoping that somewhere I didn't have a PCI bus or video acceration option set right. Does anyone know how much the FPU is used by these tasks? The 6x86 fpu sucks balls, but I can't really see it being used for web surfing, etc. Final question: does anyone know anything about the i430HX and its cache and tag ram? I have a 256KB pipeline-burst L2 cache module installed. I seem to recall that the stock board only included enough static tag ram to cache the first 64MB. I bought and installed a 32k x 8 x 15ns SRAM chip and installed it in the empty socket on the board. The bios has an option to set the cacheable ram to 64MB or 512MB. I cannot boot with it set to 512MB, I suspect that perhaps the 512KB L2 cache module might be required (they stopped making these many years ago I'm sure.) This all happened a long time ago so I can't really remember the details. Anyway, regarless of this cache business, w95 "felt" a whole lot faster than woody, so I'm looking for stuff that I haven't turned on or optimized correctly. I include below the dmesg kernel startup, in case anyone spots anything out of the ordinary. Brian (and yes, I meant Gnome 1.4 not 1.2) Linux version 2.4.16 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #3 Sat Jun 8 01:03:54 PDT 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000000f00000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000f00000 - 0000000001000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000001000000 - 0000000007000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 28672 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 24576 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=805 Initializing CPU#0 Console: colour VGA+ 132x60 Calibrating delay loop... 119.60 BogoMIPS Memory: 109576k/114688k available (1048k kernel code, 3700k reserved, 311k data, 200k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Enabling CPUID on Cyrix processor. CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 00000001 00000000 00000000, vendor = 1 CPU: After vendor init, caps: 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000004 CPU: After generic, caps: 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000004 CPU: Common caps: 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000004 CPU: Cyrix 6x86 2x Core/Bus Clock stepping 05 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Cyrix ARR PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb2b0, last bus=0 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Starting kswapd Journalled Block Device driver loaded pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre9 (Nov 6, 2001) eth0: Lite-On PNIC-II rev 37 at 0x6100, 00:C0:F0:77:94:E6, IRQ 10. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi: ***** BusLogic SCSI Driver Version 2.1.15 of 17 August 1998 ***** scsi: Copyright 1995-1998 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scsi0: Configuring BusLogic Model BT-958 PCI Wide Ultra SCSI Host Adapter scsi0: Firmware Version: 5.06I, I/O Address: 0x6200, IRQ Channel: 11/Level scsi0: PCI Bus: 0, Device: 19, Address: 0xE0805000, Host Adapter SCSI ID: 7 scsi0: Parity Checking: Enabled, Extended Translation: Enabled scsi0: Synchronous Negotiation: UUUNFUU#UUUUUUUU, Wide Negotiation: YYYNNNN#YYYYYYYY scsi0: Disconnect/Reconnect: Enabled, Tagged Queuing: Enabled scsi0: Scatter/Gather Limit: 128 of 8192 segments, Mailboxes: 211 scsi0: Driver Queue Depth: 211, Host Adapter Queue Depth: 192 scsi0: Tagged Queue Depth: Automatic, Untagged Queue Depth: 3 scsi0: Error Recovery Strategy: Default, SCSI Bus Reset: Enabled scsi0: SCSI Bus Termination: Both Enabled, SCAM: Disabled scsi0: *** BusLogic BT-958 Initialized Successfully *** scsi0 : BusLogic BT-958 Vendor: OEM Model: DCRS04Z Rev: 0101 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: OEM Model: DCRS04Z Rev: 0101 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R412C Rev: 1.07 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-32TS Rev: 1.02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 28849-XXX Rev: 4.CM Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 28849-XXX Rev: 4.CM Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi0: Target 0: Queue Depth 28, Synchronous at 20.0 MB/sec, offset 15 scsi0: Target 1: Queue Depth 28, Synchronous at 20.0 MB/sec, offset 15 scsi0: Target 4: Queue Depth 3, Synchronous at 10.0 MB/sec, offset 8 scsi0: Target 5: Queue Depth 3, Synchronous at 20.0 MB/sec, offset 15 scsi0: Target 6: Queue Depth 3, Synchronous at 5.00 MB/sec, offset 15 st: Version 20011103, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 8888543 512-byte hdwr sectors (4551 MB) Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > SCSI device sdb: 8888543 512-byte hdwr sectors (4551 MB) sdb: sdb1 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 12x/12x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda caddy Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 sr1: scsi-1 drive Attached scsi generic sg5 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 1, type 8 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed scsi0: Tagged Queuing now active for Target 0 Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1) Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]