Is Linux really faster than MS Windows ?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Mar 6 02:45:28 UTC 2005


On Saturday 05 March 2005 19:20, Skunk Worx wrote:
>Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
>> Any comments ? Or am I missing something ?
>
>i've been working on a windows XP box, trying to figure out why it
>grinds the hard drive all day, on every mouse movement, while linux
>plugged into the same machine (same model model/size hard drive
> swapped in) does not.
>
>i've come to the conclusion that, although both 6 gb. drives are
> fairly full, the win XP box, as it applies patches and updates and
> software, somehow puts them further out on the drive platters while
> linux somehow tends to overwrite things when it patches and
> updates, or otherwise manages to localize things...or has a better
> caching system by default.
>
>the poor XP machine (with the XP drive plugged it) just starts dying
>after getting all the SPs, etc installed...grinding on the hard
> drive on any action...the linux HD just gets accessed mostly on
> boot up and it's done...with a big fat fedora core install and all
> yum updates.
>
>they are both 6 gb. drives, pretty small, not recommended....i'm
>guessing XP has to swing the spindle all over the drive face a lot
> while linux does not?
>
>this is just a theory about a special scenario where XP appears to
> be an extremely poor solution compared to linux.
>

My instant, gut reaction is that your XP box has a keylogger 
installed, and that it logging every keypress and mouse move.
Get yourself a good snooper utility and see what it says about that.  
It is un-natural, even for a windows box.

>--
>sw
>
>PS: a personal aside...i am no longer a linux advocate...my opinion
> is, if you have to ask, you're a windows person anyway, no use
> discussing it. the merits of each solution and all opinions either
> way are fully documented on the web...to me the choice is obvious,
> for a huge number of reasons, but that's just me.

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