mine seems faster in some ways than my Laptop: 1Ghz Celeron / 256Mb RAM / M$ xp-home.
Michael Havens <
bmike101@cox.net> wrote: 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.
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