[TCLUG] Poor performance of AMD 1 Ghz?

[Joel Luth]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Layer" <blayer at qwest.net>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Poor performance of AMD 1 Ghz?


> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:14:47 -0500
> "Tom Hudak" <thudak at sistina.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 02:41:12AM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > >Anyone else seeing terrible performance on AMD Athlong processors?
> > My dad's 1Ghz is blazing fast.
>
> I've got a Duron 700 @ 850Mhz - this is the '200Mhz' FSB part, with 512MB
> of PC133 RAM on an ABIT KT-7 RAID motherboard. It absolutely screams, it
> is the all-around fastest desktop I have ever used on any regular basis.
>
> Disk performance is very acceptable too... (hdparm is run from an xterm in
> this case)
>
> root at Homer:/home/UserX/gnut# hdparm -Tt /dev/hde
>
> /dev/hde:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.85 seconds =150.59 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.21 seconds = 28.96 MB/sec
>
>

Oh man, I need a new system.