On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:16:46PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: > > Although I must say "no improvement" is a bit weird. Do you mean "in > > general, day-to-day, non-timed work", or in specific CPU-intensive > > things you do? > > The first. This machine is my mail server at home, Web browser, mutt, CD > burner and in the rare occasion also an MP3 player. I am thinking the > extra CPU muscle will allow for smoother Firefox experiance, DVD playing > and hopefully mastering the translation of old videotapes, 8mm and > Super8 projector films to the realm of the DVD or at least DIVX, and > just maybe other DVR features as well.
The things you do currently depend a lot on other things, like disk speed etc. Also, I read some time ago about prelink, and your email convinced me to try it. It made both mozilla and firefox go from 6 seconds (time xtoolwait mozilla/firefox, second try, to let the cache help) to 3. apt-get install prelink, prelink -av -f -mR. It also installs a cronjob, disabled by default. Times, BTW, are on a 1Ghz Duron, with X on a P166Mhz. > > > Contrary to Itanium, K8 runs 32bit code very fast. I am not even sure > > that "normal" (with normal being quite hard to define) apps will run > > faster as 64bit. As was shown in some article, some will surely run > > *slower*. In short, the main use is if you need more than 4GB RAM. > > Otherwise simply use 32bit versions and wait for things to mature. > > Good luck, and tell us about your experience, > > I think that is indeed what I will do... wait for things to mature then, > and not change the kernel too fast (or not much more than the kernel > anyway). My main complaints today are rather silly and probably have to > do more with bus speed and bad mozilla optimizations. I must admit that > at work I had a dual-boot windows+debian on the same T23 laptop and with > all the MS annoyances, sailing the web on same-version firefox, is MUCH > smoother and more stable in winXP than in Debian Sid (remember, same > hardware as well). As I said, prelinking can help with startup times. If you talk about using, not starting, that's tough. > > on to my next project now... figure out why kernel 2.6.9 killed cdrecord > and how to fix it. sayonara for now. Does work for me, but with the ide-scsi module, contrary to what it says at insmod time. cdrecord dev=/dev/hdx sometimes worked, not always. I think it never worked with 2.6.9 for me. Good luck, -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
