On Wednesday 14 May 2003 11:51 am, Alex Daniloff wrote:
Hello, Don't you think it sounds quite ridiculous? How did this guy measure speed of WinXP vs. Linux? With the choronometer - (ready, set, go! on bootup), series of perfomance tests, or just subjectively to his own feelings and the mood of the moment? Do you really care which system boots faster? Linux can run for years without rebooting, WinXP as well as its previous versions has a recommended time period for so called "maintenance" reboots. In my own experience a had a Linux server (connected to UPS of course) which ran for four years without rebooting. I had to take it down only when CPU's heat sink fan got busted.
Alex
I can believe him... I installed 8.2 on 4 machines, both AMD and Intel and they all worked just fine. But the install on the 5th (AMD) was slow as a dog for no apparent reason. And it's a total SCSI machine and very similar to another machine I have that was working fine. But things were terribly slow, in particular bringing up new windows. StarOffice for example (yes it's a pig) would take forever to come up (contrary to the 8.0 performance on the same machine) and would open just a 'frame' for the main window. That would sit there for a minute or two and finally it would fill in the frame. But even then, when the program looked like it was up and running, it wouldn't accept any keybd or mouse inputs for another minute or two. TOP didn't show anything out of the ordinary and didn't even show SO on the first page. I recompiled the kernel to my liking to see if it would help and it's been fine since. I still have the distro kernel so I may go back and play with it. BTW, this same machine was running a 2.4.20 kernel under 8.0 so the problem shouldn't have been any major changes in the kernel.
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I met a guy at a Windows Server event yesterday. He told me that he
has
a 2.4GB Athalon with 2GB of memory. He tells me that it is slow to
load
(eg. sluggish). And, in his own words: "Windows XP boots faster, is more responsive, and the GUI is quick compared to what has happened in the Linux releases of the
last
year".
He initially had been using GNOME, but switched to KDE (Red Hat 8). Also, he built the kernel optimized for Athalon. The one issue I
don't
know is whether he is using DMA or not.
He is considering using SuSE, but I would like to see if anyone on
this
forum can add some insight based on the scant bit of information I
have
posted. My home system is a 700Mhz P3 and my laptop is a 1.2Ghz P3. Mozilla and OpenOffice tend to be slow to load because they are
huge,
but I don't see any sluggishness.
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