> I've got boxes at home running FC6, F8, and F10. The FC6 box is an old > AMD Athlon 2Ghz 1.5GB memory, the F8 box is a P4 3 Ghz 2GB memory, and > the F10 box is an Intel Core2 2.2 Ghz 4GB memory. > > For the test, I created a 1,000,000 line (80 byte lines, 80 MB) text > file and timed "cat file" on all the boxes, with and without X. I ran > the test several times and reported the fastest time. I also tried > turning off anti-aliased text, but that was actually slower. > > Bottom line, FC6 running X was 6 times faster than F8 and over 8 times > faster than F10. I know that there have been many, many improvements in > Fedora over the years, but X looks like it's taking a big step backward. > And don't tell me the eye-candy is much better, because I don't care. You seem to have erroneously posted a mix of numbers mixing up version, kernel, X server and hardware. Unless you hold three of those constant to get the variation in the fourth your data is totally meaningless - even if there is a real slow down. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
