Civileme,
I will take you up on this offer, and write to you again in a few days.
First I will add the FastVram option to my XConfig file, check my hard
drive parameters (and specifications) on both machines, and make a list
of the daemons running on both machines, and gather the other data you
requested. (And I must finish some other work first.)
Thank you,
Randy Kramer
Civileme wrote:
> Well, the price of the snappy response is that the code for IE is part of the
> op system. Even if you decide you want to use another browser, you still
> have the IE code sitting there. There was a utility issued independently
> that turned off the IE code and then Netsxape on Windows appeared pretty
> fleet while beforehand it CHUGGED along.
Interesting!
>
> The price you pay is security. Even with the current IE, I can construct a
> website that destroys your computer's data in a single step if you open it
> with IE.
>
> Still, even though there is overhead for the walls between the programs and
> the op system, which are necessary for your protection, your linux machine
> should be running faster. I would suggest you check the daemons you have
> activated.
Will advise.
>
>
> So, what does
>
> hdparm -t /dev/hda
>
> say? Run it three times, and run it without any caching programs active
> (like netscape or squid or konqueror).
On the Linux box it says 8.59, 8.57, and 8.70 MBytes / sec.
>
> Also, do windows and linux run off the same disk? Is it a disk that can use
> DMA or udma?
I'll let you know later. (Well they are not the same disk, it might be
the same model -- I will check.)
Do you have a VIA chipset, because the kernel is deliberately
> disabled of several fast disk features to avoid a hardware bug that is
> corrupting some windows installations.
No, not a VIA chipset -- both motherboards are PC100 using SiS chipset.
>
> In other words, compare apples to apples. I will assist if you want to test,
> but right now your test may not be a fair assessment. many of the things you
> speak of are disk-speed dependent.
>
I will be back in touch when I have more information.
Thanks,
Randy Kramer
