Processor speed

[Michael Havens]

It appears as if the two machines in question are identical.... all the  
way down to how much RAM is in it. It appears that I need the 170MB RAM  
chips. I realize now that I also need a faster drive but I already have  
one drive on the shelf (windows drive) that was installed when the  
computer was built ('97) and two in the computer. One of the two I bought  
around '02 and I haven't a clue abouven't a clue about the other that is a  
SCSI drive (it is swap). (how do you view it's rpm?)

Glad I learned about lshw!
         *-scsi
              description: SCSI storage controller
              product: AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U
              vendor: Adaptec
              physical id: c
              bus info: pci at 00:0c.0
              logical name: scsi2
              version: 00
              width: 32 bits
              clock: 33MHz
              capabilities: scsi bus_master scsi-host
              configuration: driver=aic7xxx
              resources: iomemory:df102000-df102fff irq:9

         *-ide
              description: IDE interface
              product: VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master  
IDE
              vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
              physical id: 7.1
              bus info: pci at 00:07.1
              version: 06
              width: 32 bits
              clock: 33MHz
              capabilities: ide bus_master
              configuration: driver=VIA_IDE
              resources: ioport:d000-d00f
            *-ide:0
                 description: IDE Channel 0
                 physical id: 0
                 bus info: ide at 0
                 logical name: ide0
                 clock: 33MHz
               *-disk
                    product: Maxtor 6E040L0
                    vendor: Maxtor
                    physical id: 0
                    bus info: ide at 0.0
                    logical name: /dev/hda
                    capacity: 38GB




On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:45:41 -0700, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>  
wrote:

>
>
> The million dollar question is how much ram do you have?
>
> I'm running 384Mb and my drives are 7200rpm
>
>
>    IBM                   Deskstar Hard Drive
>    Formatted                   Storage Capacity : 20 GB
>    Interface                   : UDMA/100 (IDE)
>    Spindle                   Speed : 7,200 RPM
>    Data                   Buffer : 2MB
>    Latency                   (average ms) : 4.17
>    Average                   Seek Time : 8.5ms
> This is a turn of the century drive.
>
> This conversation is making me think of a project I was doing about 8  
> years ago.
>
> I worked for a growing HMO.  We had about 300 employees I seem to  
> recall.  I was in Tucson and we had 27Gigs of space on Novell servers  
> for all of us.  I was in Underwriting so we were allotted 4Gig of that.
>
> I created a application that would process 4Gigs of data over the  
> network every  month.  I guess it drove IS crazy because they spent  
> $2700 on an ultra wide fast 9Gig SCII drive with a controller card that  
> could manage like 64 peripherals
>
> We had an Intel 100 MHz machine with 8mb or 16mb of RAM and something  
> like a 400Mb HD.  We beefed it up to 64Mb RAM
>
> While doing testing before that HD & RAM upgrade I could see the record  
> counter in the one's position change.
>
> After the addition I could not make out the one's or the ten's position  
> and the hundred's position was moving rather fast.
>
> Of course I was pulling the data local and then processing it which had  
> to speed it up.
>
> My point is: Same CPU, more RAM, and an extremely faster drive woke up  
> an otherwise hand-me-down machine.
>
>
>
> Michael Havens <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote: On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:56:08  
> -0700, JT Moree
> wrote:
>
>> cat /proc/cpuinfo
>>
>
> bmike1 at 0[~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 5
> model           : 8
> model name      : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
> stepping        : 12
> cpu MHz         : 501.216
> cache size      : 64 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 1
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow
> k6_mtrr
> bogomips        : 1003.84
>
> bmike1 at 0[~]$                                                           --
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> Maybe everything is fine and I just THINK it is slow.
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