Disk I/O - too slow?

[Don Levey]

fedora-list-admin at redhat.com wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 22:56, Don Levey wrote:
>> I've been looking for performance tweaks, as certain things seem a
>> bit slow, such as I/O and display.  I had gotten a hot display card,
>> for example, from ATI on the basis of their having Linux drivers -
>> only to find that those drivers are... incomplete.  I was hoping to
>> make up some speed at disk level.  Oh well.
>> Thanks again,
>>  -Don
>
> My laptop has a Radeon Mobility 7500.  With glxgears I get an average
> of 1036.400 FPS running in 16bit mode.  My desktop has a decent
> Gefore 3 Ti 500 and I get about 3,200 FPS with glxgears.
>
> Run glxgears for about 20 seconds to see what kind of FPS you get.  Do
> not resize the window, leave it at the default.  You could also try to
> run glgears in 16bit mode by chaning the DefaultDepth in your "Screen"
> section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
>

Unfortunately, I've got the Radeon 9600 Pro, which apparently doesn't offer
3D support in Linux.  My output from glxgears averages around 95-100 fps.  I
haven't tried at 16-bit depth yet.
 -Don