Todd, I figured it was good- and I'm not overclocking the ram or the KX7 FSB, and am running serial presence detect ram timings. That Crucial PC2700 is excellent, and is known to do much better than rated, and the Abit KX7 is known to reach a 180-190MHZ FSB. However, if I started doing that stuff, I would complicate my linux learning curve, which for me, is complicated enough. I need to know my hardware is stable, eliminating that as a source of any problems, so then I can center in on how I've messed up, or not understood some aspect of linux.
I must admit though, I do like to tweak the hardware- must be left over from my gas-powered model airplane days back in the '50s, and my life-long obsession with never wasting any time. That, or I've entered my second childhood. It's ironic that I'm still using 56k dial-up- thus my desire to squeeze out every last nano second of performance. Perhaps those broadbanders have forgotten how frustrating dial-up can be? Oh yeah- I notice you're running 2.4.21pre4. I installed that too (the cooker rpm), on a fresh 9.0 install, and it seemed to work fine. I just noticed that there is a preemptive kernel patch for 2.4.21pre2- do you think that would work on a vanilla pre4 with a stock 9.0? And is Mandrake going to offer preemptive kernels before 2.6? I did do a 2.4.20 vanilla and preemptive- worked great on 9.0. Or- maybe just wait for the 9.1 release. Robert Crawford On Friday 28 February 2003 01:22 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > flacycads wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:09:13AM -0500 : > > Todd, > > I thought I mentioned I had tweaked the drive before, but perhaps I just > > You may have. > > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.45 seconds =284.44 MB/sec > > HOLY CRAP. That's smoking fast. Almost double what I get. That's the > advantage of PC2700 RAM. > > Blue skies... Todd >
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