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 $2700 on an ultra wide fast 9Gig SCII drive with a controller card that could manage like 64 peripherals
We had an Intel 100 MHz machine with 8mb or 16mb of RAM and something like a 400Mb HD. We beefed it up to 64Mb RAM
While doing testing before that HD & RAM upgrade I could see the record counter in the one's position change.
After the addition I could not make out the one's or the ten's position and the hundred's position was moving rather fast.
Of course I was pulling the data local and then processing it which had to speed it up.
My point is: Same CPU, more RAM, and an extremely faster drive woke up an otherwise hand-me-down machine.
Michael Havens <
bmike101@cox.net> wrote: On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:56:08 -0700, JT Moree
wrote:
> cat /proc/cpuinfo
>
bmike1@0[~]$ 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.
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