performance: Linux vs Win

[George Daflidis-Kotsis]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:44:55PM +0300, Alex Papadopoulos wrote:

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> Ktarxas, eyxaristw olous gia tis ws wras apanthseis.
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> Merika peraiterw stoixeia gia thn katastash enos systhmatos pou 
> parousiazei to xeirotero performance: Celeron 633, RAM 128MB, SiS630 
> chipset (me onboard olo ton planhth), 10arhs 5400 Quantum HDD
> 
> [root at linux alex]# /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hda
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> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   32.08 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  15.69 MB/sec
> 
> Xwris kdm, (apo runlevel 3), gia na shkwsei to KDE3: 45''
> Meta apo ena click sto "Home Directory" ... 8'' gia na to deiksei
> Gia na anoiksei to OpenOffice1.0 ... 47''
> Gia na *scrollarei* me ton file manager (Konqueror) ena directory me 
> polla arxeia, polles fores perimeneis ligo na zwgrafisei to para8yro 
> ka8ws allazoun ta eikonidia. <- Ayto mou deixnei oti h VGA tou einai 
> sto orio (apo th stigmh pou ekeinh th stigmh blepeis me ena top oti to 
> CPU utilization einai katw tou 1%). Douleyw se 1024 x 768, 8a dokimasw 
> xamhlotero, an kai den boleyei.
> 
> Afhnontas to KDE3 kata meros, me TWM ekane akribws ton idio xrono na 
> anoiksei to OpenOffice. 47''). Fysika o TWM ksekinhse se 2'' (ayto mas 
> eleipe!)
> 
> Upgrade/recompile kernel den exw kanei akoma.
> 
> Ayta. 8a synexisw na psaxnomai kai 8a anaferw apotelesmata an brw 
> lavraki.

Poso swap exei?

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[george daflidis-kotsis - systems admin,web/e-commerce - gdk at demon.net]