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Gnome:
Ok, I'll keep this simple.

Last night I was transferring stuff of my fileserver that is being transformed into a webserver (Linux/Apache) to my laptop (the only box of mine with a burner).

On the laptop (XP, 2.5G CPU, 512Mb ram, 7200rpm HDD, fastest graphics in the house (but can't remember what exactly), I had Trillian and Netscape 7.2 running, as well as a windoze explorer window. That was all.

The server (Mandrake 10/Gnome, 300Mhz CPU, 190 MB Ram, Nvida Geforce 2 (IIRC) w/ 32Mb ram, several older slower 5400(?) HDD's) was ul'ing the files to the doze box, transferring files to a couple of 'staging areas', doing a file search, handling some printing and also had Mozilla running (but idle).

The doze box was really sluggish under it's load. 25-30 seconds for an IM to send on Trillian, and maybe another 5-10 seconds for the screen to update. Going back to the web page displayed behind the IM window - anything up to 30 seconds, and anything up to another 20 for the page to respond to input.

The Linux box, otoh, was at most 5 seconds to display anything. Starting a new task was a bit slow, but the disk activity was high so that would, I expect, cover the very slight sluggishness.

So.. Why is my new expensive machine running XP so much slower than an old pile of junk I was considering dumping?

Windoze XP? :thumbdwn: :fu:

Linux? :thumbup: :D :thumbup: :D...

I went to linux for the server because of stability and security. I'll probably switch the laptop over to it because of that and, having tried Knoppix out on it, SPEED!


[Oh, and before anyone asks - my nick was given to me due to my physical characteristics in '91, and does not relate to the Gnome desktop)

Aloone_Jonez:
Good for you, using Gnome rather than KDE, is this for speed too? I've found KDE very slow almoast Windows slow.

I've found Windows slow for compresing fills and also renaiming files on FAT32 partitions. Linux can rename a file in less than a second on my FAT32 partition but Windows takes fucking ages. But I have found the Windows boots quicker than Linux in general.

ShawnD1:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I've found Windows slow for compresing fills and also renaiming files on FAT32 partitions.
--- End quote ---

Compressing files is limited by CPU; not the file system. In that case, your beef would be with something like WinZip or WinRAR, not actual Windows.

Gnome, is your problem caused by hard drive lag? What you described is exactly how my computer acts when I'm transfering large amounts of data across the network, or defragging.

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: ShawnD1 ---Compressing files is limited by CPU; not the file system. In that case, your beef would be with something like WinZip or WinRAR, not actual Windows.

--- End quote ---


FAT32 is very inefficent and Windows XP has built in ZIP support - I don't have WinZip or WinRAR. When I rename a 500MB file on my FAT32 drive form Linux it takes less than a second when it takes 5 miniutes from XP.

adiment:
Windowsxp is mainly slow becuase you have to defrag after a fresh install. Also theres many useless services running..like "Messanger" All the eye candy can make it slow as well, but that's not the problem with your specs.

XP's ram management isn't great becuase by default it doesn't unload cached dll's in the memory. All can be changed by simple tweaks.

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