Processor speed

[keith smith]

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[~]$                                                           --
:~)MIKE(~:

Maybe everything is fine and I just THINK it is slow.
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