Question about speed

[Horst von Brand]

Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote:
> Matthew Miller writes:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:51:51AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > > > My fast machine is a Pentium 2 clocking at 348 Mhz with 192 Mb RAM
> > > > > The Celeron slowpoke clocks at 701 and sports 512 Mb RAM

> > > > How are you measuring fast? For some workloads, that's completely to be
> > > > expected.

> > > Latency of keystrokes. I press the key and the feedback is oo so slow.
> > > In my case it's TTS feedback, not on screen, but same principle. Both
> > > machines have the exact same TTS board (ISA) and software drivers, both
> > > running FC4, but this was also true FC 3.

> > Hmmm. That should be next to instant on either system. I wonder if
> > something is simply configured badly and introducing a delay.

Note that in my experience a good or bad motherboard can make worlds of
difference between machines. I.e., an i386/25 being quite a bit faster than
an i486dx4/100 when compiling kernels... one a Novell certified mobo (quite
expensive in its time), the other a el-cheapo mobo from the PC store at the
next corner.
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