Klaasjan Brand writes: > 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). > > I'm also wondering the same thing. 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 DMA is on on both. > > 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. > > 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... > > Klaasjan > > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org