[PLUG] Why is it slower on a P4?

Cooper Stevenson cooper at linux-enterprise.net
Tue Nov 19 19:28:42 UTC 2002


Does your machine have adequate swap space available?

How much memeory does your machine have, and how much swap space are you
using?


-Cooper


On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 11:16, Derek Loree wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 10:59, Russ Johnson wrote:
> > * Percival, Ray <Ray.Percival at summit.fiserv.com> [2002-11-19 08:24]:
> > > What hard drive is in the machine at work? I'm guessing you bought something nice while Dell tends to put cheap stuff in theirs. Also the Soyo is a pretty good chipset once again Dell not so much. The other reason is in almost everything except multimedia the Athlons tend to do better than the P4s. Also have you built a nice custom kernel for one and not for the other. Turning on processor support when building a kernel can make a *huge* difference.
> > 
> > The hard drive in the Athlon is an IBM, the one in the Dell is a Seagate
> > Cheetah. I have these same drives in other machines (not Dells) and they
> > are very speedy. Most of those machines are PIIIs with ASUS or Abit
> > motherboards. Throw in a few dual proc Tyans for good measure.
> 
> I don't see how, with 1Gig of RAM, the DMA state of the harddrive will
> make the mouse sluggish.  I really can't imagine any swapping going on. 
> Harddrive speed will affect application startup time, file copies and
> other read-write activities, but not the mouse movement or general
> application usage.
> 
> Derek
> 
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