Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB speed up
On Tue October 4 2005 07.00, Pingveno wrote: I've noticed that GRUB takes a rather long time to start up on my computer. Granted, this is PII 550 Mhz. But it takes several seconds just for GRUB, not for anything to do with the kernel starting. The attached file is, obviously, my configuration file. BTW, the commented out entries are just old. Any optimization ideas out there? title Linux 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 root (hd0,3) kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda1 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] udev initrd /initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 Grub reads the data into ram as soon as it reads the kernel or initrd line. The time it seems to wait, is the time required to load this into ram. Since grub uses (i assume) bios calls, reading with those is much slower than disk access through the modern os drivers. I'd check for the size of the initrd, and see if its compressed. It seems to lack the .gz extension so it might not be. greetings, - Folken -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:12:56AM +0100, Dave S wrote: The GHz sound impressive but I know neither chip is a very powerful, I believe they 'water down' the internals !. I cant find anywhere a comparison between my PIII these two possibilitys. I found a comparision between (almost) your target cpus: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=61 (note the celeron is actually the 2.8 GHz Model) My PIII is old technology, these two are newer technology with faster clock speeds but engineered to a price, would the speed increase be noticeable ? Any comments ? The 512 MB Ram will defently noticeable when you work with KDE. KDE is very ram hungry and I wouldn't recommend to run it with less than 512. (Although speed / memory consumption seem to have improved miles with the latest versions of kde) Intel Celeron 2.4GHz 128K 400MHz Socket 478 CPU OEM - 512MB RAM AMD Sempron 2800+ 2.0GHz (333FSB) 256K Cache Socket A OEM - 512 MB RAM As to the processors, I'd go for the Sempron. Celerons are IMO castraded pentiums and really not great for compiler runs. The halved L1 cache really hits on the performance in general. Since you are on a contrained budget I'd even more strongley urge you to amd, since they usually give you more performance for the buck. (That being said.. i'm no fan of intel. Therefore take this with a grain of salt.) Oh btw.. you may ignore GHz numbers now.. they are no longer an indicator of how fast processors are. - Folken -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
