On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 12:22:22PM -0500, Bill Glidden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed a Debian distro onto a PC that uses a Via C3 processor. The
> application I am running behaves inconsistently in terms of performance on
> this machine. The via is a 1 Ghz model, and compared to a 1 Ghz Athlon there
> is no comparison.
>
> For example, my application reads some data from a database and stores it in
> a linked list. Each new item goes to the end of the list. The list has at
> most 45 entries. On the Via system, it takes about 1 second to add an entry
> to the end of this list. On the Athlon, you can't measure the time because
> it happens so quickly. Both machines have the same amount of memory, 512mb.
> The Athlon machine is running SuSE 9, but I don't see how that could cause
> this sort of difference.
>
> I'm open to ideas, suggestions, criticism, ridicule, and insult.
>
If I'm not mistaken, the C3 chips have a _very_ low on-chip cache. I
have a Via C3 on my main desktop. Speed is rated at 800MHz, and I can't
speak to whether it's faster or slower than other machines. For the kind
of things I do, I haven't noticed a problem. But then again, I work at
the console mostly.
Paul
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