Is this an 6x86 P150 or an 800MHz Athlon? Or is the win2k box the 800MHz Athlon?
Some musings: - how much RAM on the win2k box? - On my 1GHz Athlon, I see X spiking up to 60% CPU at times. (Yes, I run X4.1, Gnome 1.2 and mozilla 1.0rc3. - Do you run gnome 1.2 or 1.4? - mozilla is pretty slow to load on my win2k box that only has 128MB RAM. - On such an old machine, best to use a light weight window manager instead of a big, fat windowing environment (and gnome is much slimmer than KDE!) Try fvwm2, blackbox, or xfce. On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 17:23, Brian Dessent wrote: > > I've recently installed woody on an older system: 6x86 P150, 112MB RAM, > Matrox Millennium I 4MB PCI, Buslogic multimaster PCI scsi (all scsi, no > ide). This system is far from modern but I really remember it feeling a > lot faster when it was my primary workstation (running win95.) > > I've installed XFree 4.1 and Gnome 1.2. I'm new to the the recent > graphical desktop developments (the last linux that I used was in the > 4.x redhat days) but it seems like everything takes forever. Clicking a > tab in the Gnome preferences widget or mozilla preferences results in a > 1 or 2 second delay before anything changes on the screen. Repainting > the default desktop wallpaper seems to go pixel-by-pixel at times. > Mozilla (0.9.9) averages about 5 to 10 seconds to render modest pages > (like the debian.org home page.) This is not a function of bandwidth as > I get 180 KB/s downloading packages. As an extreme example, hitting > reload on the default freshmeat homepage takes mozilla ~26 seconds (more > like 30+ seconds when not cached), compared to ~3 seconds for mozilla > under W2k on my main workstation which uses the same internet > connection. Now certainly, that machine is more modern but it's just an > 800 MHz athlon. I can live with the fact that rendering large pages is > cpu-bound, but back in the day this video card had very respectable 2D > performance and I'm certainly not seeing any of that currently. My > preferred desktop is 1152x864x24 but I'm currently at 1024x768x16 to see > if it's any faster, and it's not. > > So my question is, what should I be looking at? Xfree is using its > accelerated mga driver (I think), but how do I check to make sure it's > fully tweaked? Is there anything I should check as far as bus/cpu/ram > bottlenecks? I'm running 2.4.16 which I compiled for this machine. > I'll doublecheck the BIOS chipset timings (i430HX) but I don't think > they've changed in a long time. Disk is not a problem because the > swapfile is hardly being used and the scsi subsystem is respectable. -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "I have created a government of whirled peas..." | | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, | ! CNN, Larry King Live | +---------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
