Question about speed

[Janina Sajka]

Klaasjan Brand writes:
> On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 11:48 +0100, Mike old wrote:
> > I have two machines (home/work) both running FC4
> > 
> > machine 1 k6/2 500mhz 256Mb geforce4
> > machine 1 celeron 933mhz 256Mb geforce2
> > 
> > The lower speced machine is far,far,far quicker (gnome etc).
> > 

I'm also wondering the same thing.

My fast machine is a Pentium 2 clocking at 348 Mhz with 192 Mb RAM

The Celeron slowpoke clocks at 701 and sports 512 Mb RAM

DMA is on on both.

> > Anyone any ideas how this could be?
> > 
> 
> Did you install the binary nvidia drivers on one of them? X performance
> looks a lot snappier using these drivers instead of the nv driver from
> xorg.
> 
> You can also check with hdparm if ultradma is enabled for the disk in
> the celeron. If it's not the machine will react a lot slower since the
> cpu is tied up by the disk i/o...
> 
> Klaasjan
> 
> 
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