On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 22:56, James Wilkinson wrote: > Tony Dietrich wrote: > > An AMD K6_2 isn't really fast enough for FC2 either. Downgrade to RH9. > > Or get a faster basic system. > > I strongly disagree with this. > > The core of the operating system is not particularly processor > intensive. Most of the system, and nearly all of the non-graphical > stuff, is based on designs that are decades old. In general, the > requirement for memory has gone up, but the CPU requirements have not > gone up that much. > I didn't make myself clear. Sorry I agree with you .. my point as below is that earlier distributions provided applications that weren't as capable, thus demanded less from the host system. A full GUI install of RH9 imposes less of a load on the CPU than a similar Fedora installation will, assuming the user makes use of the new generation Fedora GUI apps on the Fedora installation, but uses RH9 generation apps on that installation. > Most of the graphical programs are newer (and many of them are memory > hogs), but they don't do *that* much computation. It still takes a *lot* > of computation to tax a 300 MHz processor. > > There certainly are programs that run on Fedora that do require CPU > time, but that isn't the fault of the operating system. (The only one > I'd notice is that compiles would take longer. I don't tend to sit about > waiting for compiles to finish, anyway). > > It's worth running top or "vmstat 5" in a window while you use Fedora > normally. If user time + system time is much less than 100%, then you > are simply not CPU limited. > > You may well be disk limited: there are other bottlenecks in a PC. Extra > memory would be a Good Thing, and hide this. Most K6-2 motherboards can > take at least 512 MB of RAM. > > Incidentally, another poster recommended upgrading to a K6-III. In my > experience, on normal desktop use, you wouldn't notice the extra 20% > performance this brings. Besides, it will be hard to source these > nowadays. > > James. > -- > E-mail address: james | A woodpigeon would, If a woodpigeon could, > @westexe.demon.co.uk | But a woodpigeon can't, So it won't. > > | A woodpigeon could, If a woodpigeon would, > | But a woodpigeon doesn't want to. So it doesn't. -- Tony Dietrich ------------- Just type 'mv * /dev/null'.
