On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:57 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > One thing that slightly surprises me is that having a server > that runs 5 times as fast, with 4 times as much memory, > as my greatly-loved ancient Asus server > does not in fact seem to speed anything up noticeably. A computer spends much of its time doing nothing, faster PCs have more spare time. Do something that does require lots of computing, such as ray tracing, 3D game video generation, video MPEG encoding, etc., and you will notice the difference. For other less intensive tasks, word processing, etc., much of the slowness is down to other things, like the disc drive (starting the program, opening/saving data, loading fonts, etc.). Which is much much slower than the processor. Likewise with booting a computer, we spend a lot of time waiting for things to load, more than we spend waiting for actual computing. Although the parsing of plain text configuration files can be quite a slow down. You'll notice Squid and Apache, for example, are much quicker to start up on older computers if you strip out all the comments in the text file. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
