fedora-list Digest, Vol 39, Issue 146

[Christian Burger]

> Message: 15
> Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 08:30:46 -0700
> From: Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com>
> Subject: FC6 on AMD Dual Core
> To: Fedora List <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> All,
> 
> I have been running on FC6 on a AMD Dual Core laptop (1GB RAM) with
> nvidia chipset with SATA drive with 64 bit Kernel. I have also running
> FC6 on a Intel P4 desktop (1GB RAM). The issue is that i think the
> laptop performance is much slower than the desktop because
> application(s) take a little longer to open on the laptop and the vmware
> (same image) runs much faster on desktop than the laptop. I was
> expecting the laptop to run faster as it is dual core machine.
> Wondering where to look for any clues.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Srikanth
> 

It could be due to the speed stepping.  What is cat /proc/cpuinfo reporting
when you are putting a load on the system?