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@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@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@0 logical name: ide0 clock: 33MHz *-disk product: Maxtor 6E040L0 vendor: Maxtor physical id: 0 bus info: ide@0.0 logical name: /dev/hda capacity: 38GB On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:45:41 -0700, keith smith 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 > $2700 on an ultra wide fast 9Gig SCII drive with a controller card that > could manage like 64 peripherals > > We had an Intel 100 MHz machine with 8mb or 16mb of RAM and something > like a 400Mb HD. We beefed it up to 64Mb RAM > > While doing testing before that HD & RAM upgrade I could see the record > counter in the one's position change. > > After the addition I could not make out the one's or the ten's position > and the hundred's position was moving rather fast. > > Of course I was pulling the data local and then processing it which had > to speed it up. > > My point is: Same CPU, more RAM, and an extremely faster drive woke up > an otherwise hand-me-down machine. > > > > Michael Havens wrote: On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:56:08 > -0700, JT Moree > wrote: > >> cat /proc/cpuinfo >> > > bmike1@0[~]$ 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@0[~]$ -- > :~)MIKE(~: > > Maybe everything is fine and I just THINK it is slow. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > - - - - - - - > Keith Smith > - - - - - - - > http://travelingcheese.com/search_engine/increase-search-engine-traffic.html > - - - - - - - > --------------------------------- > Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. -- :~)MIKE(~: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss