Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthew Miller writes: > > 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. Note that in my experience a good or bad motherboard can make worlds of difference between machines. I.e., an i386/25 being quite a bit faster than an i486dx4/100 when compiling kernels... one a Novell certified mobo (quite expensive in its time), the other a el-cheapo mobo from the PC store at the next corner. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513