Re: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 22:17, Mike McCarty wrote:

Its a 2.4gHz Athlon box.

Something wrong with your 58 second machine there Mike :-(

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take his commentary with a grain of salt and recognize that he is using
FC-2 which I am sure few will argue was better abandoned for FC-3

Are you suggesting that FC4 would load it any faster?


Probably but I think you have a specific problem on that machine.

I suspect the specific problem I have is lack of RAM.

Or too many programs loaded. Adding RAM is easier than sorting
out what you don't really need to run, though.


I've got a dual pII-450 running FC1 that starts OO in about 10
seconds. The first instance of Firefox with google as the home
page takes about 5 seconds, another window about 2. Does
hdparm -T -t show somewhere near 30MB/sec for buffered reads?


# hdparm -T -t /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 1096 MB in 2.00 seconds = 547.54 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 66 MB in 3.02 seconds = 21.86 MB/sec

Is that close enough to 30MB/s?

It's less than my ancient PII-450 gets with an almost-as-old
66 mHZ IDE card. A 2.4 gHZ P4 that should be closer to your
specs gets 60MB/s. Do you see something like:
hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63,
UDMA(100)
if you look at 'dmesg | less'? (The UDMA and speed being
the relevant part).

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