On Friday 30 December 2005 07:59, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi, > > I have two laptops: > > 1) Compaq Presario 2203 AL > Processor: Intel Pentium M 1.5 Ghz > RAM: 768 MB > Video: Intel OnBoard with 32 Mb Shared Memory > > 2) Dell D600 > Processor: Intel Pentium M 2.0 Ghz > RAM: 512 MB > Video: ATI Radeon R250 FireGL 9000 > > I run KDE on both the laptops. Even though I have 768 MB of RAM on the > Compaq laptop I get lower performance on it compared to the Dell > laptop. Disk reads are slower than the Dell D600 laptop. > > Here are hdparm results: > > Compaq: > hdparm -Tt /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing cached reads: 1932 MB in 2.00 seconds = 965.18 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 70 MB in 3.05 seconds = 22.95 > MB/sec ( Round figure for it could be around 25 MB/sec) > > Dell: > hdparm -Tt /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing cached reads: 1832 MB in 2.00 seconds = 914.77 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 100 MB in 3.03 seconds = 33.05 > MB/sec ( Round figure for it could be around 32 MB/sec) > > > Even the system responsiveness on the Compaq laptop is sluggish. > Does VGA play a _major_ role in system performance ? > Is there anyway I can improve the performance on the Compaq laptop ?
Shared video memory is slower, uses system memory, afaik. 'hdparm -i /dev/hdx' will tell you the udma value/setting for your hd, looks like they are different . -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
