Anton,
Thanks it's what I suspected but since I'd never tried lin4win I thought
I'd give it a shot. Great potential, too
bad it doesnt' work as well as windows on top of linux with vmWare. Thanks
Nightwriter
At 07:38 PM 8/5/00, you wrote:
>Submitted 05-Aug-00 by Nightwriter:
> > All,
> > I'm wrestling here with a linux for windows install of 7.1 on a
> Celeron
> > 400mhz cpu with 32 megs ram 65 megs swap i810 video card. currently it
> > takes 23 minutes 26 seconds from power on till kde is ready to
> > go. Netscape.... start it today and it'll be ready tomorrow. Windows
> > however snaps on the same box. (only 50megs swap) Any ideas?
>
>Yes. Forget Lnx4Win. What you've really got with that is you entire linux
>file system residing as a file on a fat32 filesystem and mounted as a
>loopback device. That by itself is guaranteed to kill any performance.
>
>(FWIW, I tried Lnx4Win with 6.0. A regular install took about 15-20 minutes
>while Lnx4Win took more than 90 to accomplish the same thing.)
>
>The other thing is you memory. Just plan vanilla X without a memory hog
>like KDE sitting on top of it will eat most of that. So, you're spending a
>great deal of time swapping through the loopback bottleneck.
>
>While performance would certainly increase with more RAM, I think you would
>see even more improvement by switching to a "real" linux file system.
>
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