I;d say it's both the pc100 ram and the pci bus running at 33MHz. Just can't get around it. Getting 133MHz ram might help but the bottleneck at the PCI bus is still there. This is way so many of the guys I know in schools studying comp engineering/sci are swithcing to the AMD/Athlon/Duron based mobos. They have a faster bus system (though I do believe the PCI is still a bottleneck at 33MHz). Just my 2 cents. Curtis. On Monday 04 June 2001 02:52 pm, Paul Abrahams wrote:
Recompiling the Linux kernel seems to take longer than I would expect. I've switched from a 233MHz processor to an 850MHz one, but the process doesn't seem to be going even twice as fast. So I'm wondering what's the most likely limiting factor in my system. The critical parameters:
850MHz Athlon Tyan S2390 motherboard 256MB PC100 memory 30GB 7200 RPM hard drive
I assume that nothing else is likely to be relevant.
Paul