I found more memory was an excellent investment. Win95 on a 200MHz with 32 meg of memory ran fine but netscape in a KDE desktop was veritually paralyzed by swapping. I upgraded to 96 meg and now both systems are rather comparable. One interstering performance difference I found was in downloads. On Linux with a 33k modem I can download files 3 to 4 times faster than I can on my win98 machine with a 56k modem. The win98 machine is nearly twice the hardware as well. Obviously there are other variables here besides the OS but I'm still pleased. Anyone have guess at whats going on. Ben Lutgens wrote: > >Is there some sort of speed tuning I should do? > >I am testing Linux primarily with a 133 MHz P1 with 64 mb with 20mb of swap. > >Don't tell me to get a faster box - I have one. > >WIndows 98 runs OK with this hardware. > > X is extremely resource intensive, and this is most of your problem. Also, > your swap should be twice the size of your ram if your using 2.4.x kernels > (that's straight from Rik Van Riel himslef) due to the VM subsystem. > > > > >I have tried several other distributions with much the same results. > >I fear that the claims of Linux speed in relation to Windoze may be just > >hype. > > No, you just need some horsepower to see it. The multi-threaded IP stack in > the new 2.4 kernels in and of itself makes it faster on the net. But the > applications you're using are tuned to a slightly faster machine with > plenty of ram. > > I'm surprised X runs at all on that machine. X is a beast. > > >Mark Browne > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Brian" <lxy at cloudnet.com> > >To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > >Cc: "Chrissy Showers" <jobspooh at iexposure.com>; "Jeff Gallus" > ><JGallus at stcloudstate.edu>; "Kevin Nagle" <kevin at utvs.com> > >Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:58 AM > >Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Windows Cheat Code Discovered > > > > > >> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Jay Kline wrote: > >> > >> > from http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=3b8e877a-07b50980 > >> > > >> > Windows Cheat Code Discovered > >> > >> While sitting through hours of training on Registry hacking I wouldn't > >> doubt if this sort of feature existed. Still looking for that > >> WindowsRunsReallySlow key though... > >> > >> -Brian > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> tclug-list mailing list > >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >> https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > >_______________________________________________ > >tclug-list mailing list > >tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >_______________________________________________ > >tclug-list mailing list > >tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- > Ben Lutgens > Sistina Software Inc. > > "In the war against terrorism, there are no rear lines. We're all on the > front lines" - William Cohen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- Paul Overby Poverby at megsinet.net Office: 651-686-6074 Home: 452-3233 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010914/3f000392/attachment.htm