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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4306 comp.os.linux.misc:31003 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!uknet!info!iialan From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: How fast? [was: ... slugish ...] Message-ID: <D0C929.1r2@info.swan.ac.uk> Sender: news@info.swan.ac.uk Nntp-Posting-Host: iifeak.swan.ac.uk Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology References: <1994Nov28.194617.18912@system9.unisys.com> <3bf6ou$pm7@wup-gate.wup.de> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 12:51:43 GMT Lines: 16 In article <3bf6ou$pm7@wup-gate.wup.de> andreas@wup.de (Andreas Klemm) writes: >What strikes me most are the 4 MB RAM. With that equipement I normally >wouldn't do a benchmark, since you aren't sure if swapping or paging >(depends on the amount of daemon programs that are executed when going >into multiuser mode) give strabge results ... But many many Linux people run well tuned 386 systems with 4Mb of RAM, and often very slow CPU's (SX/25 etc). So a 4Mb benchmark is useful, as is an 8Mb benchmark. Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`--[Anti Kibozing Signature]-'`----------------------------'' One two three: Kibo, Lawyer, Refugee :: Green card, Compaq come read me...