On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:01:56PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Lester Cheung"> > > > How much faster would a optimised kernel runs from your experience Jeff? > > Close enough to indistinguishably faster for general desktop use (and most > 'edge server' uses) that it doesn't matter. Seriously, for clicky-clicky > desktop applications or spitting out webpages, an optimised kernel makes > very little difference. You'll get a far bigger performance kick out of user > level configuration changes, more memory, faster disks, fatter bus, etc. Tell me about it. I've been waiting the qt3 compile to finsih and I don't have any of those. :^(
> In special cases, every optimisation counts, and in the few CPU-bound cases, > CPU optimisations may be a very useful part of that. But in the general > case... Not worth it. ;-) What about a box dedicated for compilations? This is definately not an ideal canidiate... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/qt$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 5 model : 8 model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping : 12 cpu MHz : 501.148 cache size : 64 KB bogomips : 999.42 with only 57MB usable ram Another question is: How difficult it is to "backup" my DVD collections to divX under linux? If I can do that I would install debian on my last windows box. Which is the fastest play machine I have. Okay it's a duron 8xx MHz but it's the fastest one I have. I guess I'd be much happier with that. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
