On Sunday 08 May 2005 17:47, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'd bring along Knoppix and try the following:
Okay, I'm practicing this stuff on my computer so that I'll be able to do it on my sister's computer. > > - What's the CPU speed? /proc/cpuinfo. When I do this with Knoppix I get "permission denied." If I type "su" and hit return I go back to the original prompt, and when I retry /proc/cpuinfo I get the same error message. > > - How much memory? 'free' > > - What's hard drive performance? > > hdparm /dev/hda # show Knoppix's autoconfigured settings. > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda # test actual performance. > > The critical value is the second number, buffered disk reads. Good > values are in the 10 - 50+ MiB/s range. Anything < 1 MiB/s indicates > a pathalogically slow drive. I got *massive* system performance > boosts by swapping out a disk getting ~150 KiB/s (yes, kilobytes) for > one hitting 60-80 MiB/s. I assume that your "MiB/s" is the same as MB/sec, right? I'm getting 50.99 MB/sec on my computer. Thank you. Bob PS. It seems like Knoppix is really important for Windows machines. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
