ok, well i installed xfree86 4.0 on the athlon machine, so now i have both
systems running the same version of X, same bit depth (24) and resolution.
the phenomenon persists. everything is much faster on the pentium. despite
the massive difference in hardware specs. dropping down to 16bit isn't
really a solution to me. i'd really appreciate some other ideas on this, it's very
frustrating to build a box to succeed another and find the older one smokes
the newer.
On Sat, 27 May 2000, "Paul Sack wrote:
> Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 18:21:00 -0500 (CDT)
> To: tom carlile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: "Paul Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Paul Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: mysterious slowness
>
> I had a dual P3-500 w/ 512 mb ram w/ Matrox G200 running linux at work and
> also a P2-300 running NT X'ing into the other one... I noticed the same
> thing about moving terminals or switching virtual desktops. (the windows
> one was MUCH faster.) I changed down the resolution and bit-depth on the
> dual and it was fine. Maybe that's not the answer you are looking for.
> At least make sure you are in the same bit-depth and resolution when you
> make comparisons. The G200 seems to be MUCH zippier in 16-bit than in
> 24-bit mode.
> paul
> --
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>
> On Sat, 27 May 2000, tom carlile wrote:
>
> >
> > hi guys.
> > i'm observing a mysterious speed difference between two of my
> > linux machines.
> > one is a PII 300MHz 192MB running on a 66MHz bus with an AGP Diamon
> > Viper 330 4MB card, 2.2.14 kernel, libc 2.0.7, XFree86 4.0.
> >
> > the other is a newer athlon 700 with 128MB running at 100MHz (maybe
> > 133MHz) bus with an AGP Matrox G400, 2.2.15 kernel with libc 2.1.3,
> > XFree86 3.3.6.
> > both running the same window manager (sawfish).
> >
> > when doing things like moving terminals around, or various operations
> > in the gimp i notice that the athlon box is MUCH slower than the
> > pentium box. athlon vs. pentium arguements aside, 700MHz vs.
> > 300MHz should be a noticeable difference.
> > the athlon is recognized as a 700MHz by the bios. i'm not really
> > sure what i can check or tune to fix this. does anyone
> > have any ideas?
> >
> >
>
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