Re: poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

2020-12-09 Thread Brian Morris
One other thought- to get an idea of real speeds you might try copying one of your entire source trees with cp -r dir1 dir2 Or something like that On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:30 AM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > > Brian Morris wrote: > > % time cat huge_file_copy > > > > Install smartctl to

Re: poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

2020-12-09 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Brian Morris wrote: % time cat huge_file_copy Install smartctl to check drive health I also have a PowerBook 1ghz which is quite a bit faster than my 1.5ghz tho could be because the former has a bit more ram and a newer hard drive and the latter has a defective 2nd ram slot I wanted

Re: poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

2020-11-14 Thread Brian Morris
Try % time cat huge_file_copy Install smartctl to check drive health I also have a PowerBook 1ghz which is quite a bit faster than my 1.5ghz tho could be because the former has a bit more ram and a newer hard drive and the latter has a defective 2nd ram slot On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 7:27 AM

poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

2020-11-13 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! I develop on both an iBook G4 14" (should be one of the latest model, although the motherboard ) and a PowerBook G4 17" both running debian... Although currently different kernels, minor differences. "In theory" I got the PB G4 because it should be faster than the iBook * Same CPU