On Friday 06 February 2004 06:48 pm, Logan Tygart wrote:
> Hello Slugadonia!
> Thursday morning, I downloaded and compiled the 2.6.2 kernel source
> on my experimental box. My experimental box runs Debian Sid, Pentium
> III etc. etc. blah blah.
> That said, I was wondering if anyone else is running the shiny new
> "stable" kernel. I do not notice much difference, workstation wise,
> from the 2.4.24 kernel. Open Office 1.1 still opens as slow as it
> did with 2.4.24. I use Gnome 2.4 with Sawfish and it still runs as
> smooth as ever, but what appears to me to be the same speed. The
> only physical difference I have noticed is the xscreensaver, "Sphere"
> runs about 10 times faster than before.
> One good thing, I must note about this switch over, is I haven't had
> any Oopses, yet, like I did when I switched from 2.2 to 2.4.
> What have you guys seen?
>
> The Logan
Maybe your hard drive is not running at a decent speed. This would make
all the difference. Especially loading OO.
Run hdparm -tT /dev/hda (or whatever is your drive)
My numbers are something like 580MB from cache and shy of 50MB from
disk. When I start OO it's up in 7 seconds flat. (They are 133MHz).
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