Sorry but if Speedometer keeps telling me everything is slower, then something must be slower.
And Speedometer's disk readings remained constant through all of the multiple times I ran the test, and so did the other lowere scores. Disk cache setting were the same. No I did not reformat, 7.1 was installed on another, already partitioned by 7.5.5 hard drive that I used to keep documents on. So I'm guessing they were using the same disk drivers. Yes 7.1 started up a lot quicker. However I don't find 7.5.5 to be as unstable as you claim it to be so. I know my 7.5.5 powered 8600 web server, thats on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week never crashes. I don't even think it ever crashed since I made it a web server 6 months ago. And maybe thats not fair because I don't ever atually sit down and use the 8600 it just sits there, but the Quadra doesn't crash enough to make me care about restart times. So thats not important to me. And if anything, it should have been in favor of the 7.1 install since there was nothing in the system folder but what the installer installed, nothing else, while the 7.5.5 folder has a zillion extensions and control panels, tons of software prefs, all kinds of things that I have been installing on my quest to use the Quadra 800 as my main computer. Since I'm using my Quadra 800 as my main computer, I'm naturally going to want to get the most performace out of it that I possibly can. System 7.5.5 seems to let me do that. 7.1.1 seems to lag, at least in the Speedometer results. ------ From: Quadlist, Sun, Dec 29, 2002 ------ At 01:35 -0600 on 29/12/02, Dan Palka wrote: >System 7.1.1 proved to be not just slower, but significantly slower in several >key areas, the biggest being disk access. Speedometer reported that disk >access records were 143% in favor of 7.5.5. How could this be true? >Similarly low scores were apparent in video, and math operations. Furthermore, settings such as disk cache and disk driver version (did you reformat between installs?) can dramatically affect benchmarking results. Did you time startup times? It's *at least* a minute longer in 7.5.x, and when you have an OS that's as unstable as 7.5.x, the startup time is important, because the longer it is, the longer you sit there waiting for the machine to finish restarting. You need to establish standard testing conditions and then make sure *every* one of those conditions is met for the benchmarks to mean anything. It doesn't matter what your standards are, really, as long as they are truly *standards*, and unfortunately, the default configurations of 7.1.x and 7.5.x aren't identical. -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
