On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 14:06 +0200, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 11:48 +0100, Mike old wrote: > > I have two machines (home/work) both running FC4 > > > > machine 1 k6/2 500mhz 256Mb geforce4 > > machine 1 celeron 933mhz 256Mb geforce2 > > > > The lower speced machine is far,far,far quicker (gnome etc). > > > > Anyone any ideas how this could be? > > > > Did you install the binary nvidia drivers on one of them? X performance > looks a lot snappier using these drivers instead of the nv driver from > xorg. > not installed on either > You can also check with hdparm if ultradma is enabled for the disk in > the celeron. If it's not the machine will react a lot slower since the > cpu is tied up by the disk i/o... > yep working on "slower" machine, ie: the higher specced one > Klaasjan > >