On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:11, Craig Ringer wrote: > PFJ wrote: > >>And how was it? > > > > Fast with a capital WHOOSH! > > I assume that it also has at least 4 CPUs and enough RAM to hold the > entire OS, app, and working data set without really noticing?
It's a machine we have for a very specific number of tasks (number crunching, data aquisition of muons in various fields and accelerants and the such - you know, stuff that *really* needs processing power, drive space and memory) > More and more frequently, I'm finding memory and disk performance more > important than CPU power. 2D graphics performance also makes a shocking > difference IMHO (I recently tried using Scribus on my CyberBlade XP > based laptop - and oh am I sorry). I bet you are. My laptop has Fedora Core on, kernel 2.6.1-bk1 and 256Mb of memory - it's a SiS everything on a chip el-cheapo model and compiling on it is a swine - Scribus can take over an hour on this 1.2GHz box. Luckily, I use that nice gcc thing to share the power. TTFN Paul -- Free your mind to a time where a company does not have control Free your mind to a choice of applications which you can control Free your mind from the closed world of those who seek total power Free your mind to the wonderful world of free software -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040114/bcaef3da/attachment.pgp
