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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