On Saturday 09 February 2002 14:48, you wrote: > 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... I have the same experience, my linux box blows the windows box out of the water. The only thing I can think of that would be a non-obvious answer would be optimizing the hard drive with drakopt or hdparm. I have seen a slower hd pick up the pace by quite a bit just using " #hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx" I'm not familiar with some of the other parameters to try it on an older Maxtor 5400rpm hard drive and I only have a 33hz capability with that drive. So maybe the drive needs tweaking in linux. 8.1 disabled some of the optimizations for safety, can't remember which so a archives search would be in order for that. That's my 1/2 cents worth, HTH, -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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