On Friday 23 August 2002 12:07, Mike Gorse wrote: > On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, John wrote: > > > If I build a current Linux kernel on a Pentium 100, it will probably run > > overnight. If I run it on my Athlon (1.4) it will most likely take under one > > hour. Current Durons and Celerons are not much slower than my Athlon. > > > More like 5 minutes actually; I have a 1333mhz Athlon (running at 112x12 > because my motherboard and/or memory can't seem to handle the correct > settings), and it took me just under 5 minutes to compile a kernel with > the features that I use. I'm sure that's true, but the only kernels I've built recently have been fairly close to Red Hat standard - I turn off APM, turn on ACPI and a couple of other things. The configurations I refer to are comparable to each other and so a good approximation (within the limits of my memory) of the relative processing power. I should mention too that your disk I/O with the Pentium would probably be in the range of .8 to 2 megabytes per second whereas Durons, Athlons, recent Pentium IIIs & Celerons and Pentium IVs should manage over 30. Don't take too much notice of 66, 100 and 133 Mbytes/second claims, those are only for small amounts of data and do not include reading it off the disk surface. -- Cheers John. Please, no off-list mail. You will fall foul of my spam treatment. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb