On 6/5/07, Phillip Hellewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:03:00PM -0700, Bryan Murdock wrote:
> >
> > Yup, the celery-on is slow.  If you've ever doubted how important CPU
> > cache is...  I'm still upset that a javscript application eats up more
> > CPUs than anything.  What is this world coming to?
>
> Maybe you should investigate further.  I mean, could it possibly be
> something else such as a slow video card (or video card driver)?

I wondered this myself.  The fast machine is a centrino laptop, so it
has the intel video (810?).  The slow machine has this according to
lspci:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4
MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev a4)

I would think the nvidia, though old, is still better than intel, but
I could be wrong.

Both machines have enough RAM to not matter (neither are using swap).
The FSB on the slow machine is 400 MHz.  I don't know what the
centrino machine is.

The humongous difference in processor cache is still the most
suspicious to me.  2MB versus 128K is just ridiculous.

Bryan
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