Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
On September 6, 2005 03:30, Al wrote:
...
Is Mandriva using the CPU a lot more than Windows? As I said in my original
post, Windows doesnt seem to go over 56 degrees and it's been running 24/7
for weeks at a time. Mandriva runs for between 30 and 45 mins and the
temperature skyrockets.
...
Al
I can say from my personal experience that running equivalent apps, and with
the same amount of memory (512MB), Windoze 2K swaps an order of magnitude
more than Mandriva, and all this swapping keeps the CPU running below 10%
most of the time. Only rarely, when running a single CPU bound process and
not even touching the keyboard, have I been able to get the CPU above 90%,
and when I did this the fan went into overdrive.
I find Windoze swapping behaviour extremely annoying. It seems to swap things
out just for the fun of it, even when it doesn't need the memory. If I leave
the machine idle (and I do mean idle - looking in the task manager, the idle
process is eating 100% of the time) and come back later, everything is
swapped out, even the keyboard and mouse handlers. I have to wait from 5 to
60 seconds for each piece of each app to swap back in. My employer is
upgrading me to 2GB memory, just to be able to run Thunderbird, Firefox, a
Java IDE, emacs, and a database. Pathetic! I'm impatiently awaiting the day
they let me switch to Linux.
There is a regestry option you can set in Windows 98, and I think it is
in 2K as well, that will cut down on Windows swaping. I don't remember
the setting, but there is a nice tool for setting things like that. Take
a look at: http://www.x-setup.net/
Mikkel
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