ok this is getting silly..... i have 2 machines, one runs win2k and one mandrake 8.1. they have similar chips (intel pent 550 on windows amd 750 on the linux) and the same RAM 512. the windows machine has the faster hardrive. yes i know 550 is slower than 750, but not that much, not like the performance i see, and it was linux on the slower machine before, same results.
i have 15 differnet konq apps open, mozilla, quanta, kmail an ftp program kword and i run setiathome. my linux box still outperforms windows on every lvl even though i only run the "test" app in windows and everything else is still running in linux! (granted i do not, will not, not ever use IE even on windows, so i can't compare its performance) _what_on_earth_ is going on that we have people complaining about performance? have these people not taken the kernel upgrade advice (at least to 2.4.17-7mdk) to fix virtual memory? are they running every service they can? what? it is hard for me to believe that i can get my linux box on almost the same hardware as the windows box to totally crush windows performance on things like opening web pages, opening large images, transfering files, copy work and even fps in halflife with a default (other than the kernel i mentioned) install, yet they can't! what are we over looking? what can they change? On Saturday 09 February 2002 09:39, you spoke unto me thusly: > > I just installed Mandrake 8.1 on my machine. > > > > PIII @ 733MHz 64 MB Ram, 40 GIG HDD, With about 38 GIGs free. > > > > After I use KDE or GNOME and browse the internet for a while (maybe 20 > > or 30 mins), the machines starts bogging down so bad that it takes > > MINUTES to open new windows, check mail, open apps, etc etc... -- Vini, vidi, Linux. I came, I saw, I got a real OS. shane registered linux user @ http://counter.li.org/ http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html
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