On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:51:51AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > 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 > > How are you measuring fast? For some workloads, that's completely to be > > expected. > Latency of keystrokes. I press the key and the feedback is oo so slow. > In my case it's TTS feedback, not on screen, but same principle. Both > machines have the exact same TTS board (ISA) and software drivers, both > running FC4, but this was also true FC 3. Hmmm. That should be next to instant on either system. I wonder if something is simply configured badly and introducing a delay. I'm going to make the assumption that you're not running a heavyweight GUI environment such as GNOME or KDE. In that case, the greater RAM is probably not usually a factor at all. And the Celeron 700 is a very low-end chip with pretty low overall performance. > The 348Mb box is snappy. I press [char], I hear [char] echoed out the > TTS. On the slow machine, I would warrant there's a delay of hundreds of > ms. Not measured, but I'd warrant on the order of 400-700 ms. On the other hand, either machine ought to be able to do better than that. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 89 degrees Fahrenheit.