[ale] X running excruciatingly slow

[Jeff Hubbs]

I have to concur.  Within ia32, CPU is CPU and RAM is RAM - there's no
interdependency there.

Celerons are a bit sluggy clock-for-clock compared to other CPUs in part
because their caches are miniscule.  I have a 1.7GHz Celeron here that
does not seem at all speedy next to my Slot A K7/750 overclocked to 807.

- Jeff

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 13:42, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Monday 17 May 2004 09:39 am, Sergio Chaves wrote:
> > Is it a celeron machine?
> > I read somewhere that X on celeron machines
> > need at least 512 Megs RAM with 800+ being
> > optimum.
> 
> I runs fine for me with 128M RAM.  I can't imagine what you read.
> 
> Michael
> 
> > my 2 cents
> >
> > Geoffrey wrote:
> > > John Wells wrote:
> > >> Michael D. Hirsch said:
> > >>> Could be interrupt problems.  If your mouse is having a conflict, it
> > >>> could
> > >>> slow things down.
> > >>
> > >> How would I identify this?  I am still at a loss on this one.  I've
> > >> switched mice and keyboards, but same affect.  I booted up to a Win XP
> > >> drive in same machine, same mouse and keyboard, and everything worked
> > >> perfectly fine, so it's got to be something on the linux side.  I also
> > >> upgraded the entire system, X included, to the latest versions from
> > >> freshrpms.net...still no luck.
> > >
> > > If you're having interrupt issues, I expect to see some logging info,
> > > probably in /var/log/messages.
> > >
> > > I'd compare the interrupts between linux and XP.  /proc/intterrupts
> > > will show you active interrupts and also identify shared interrupts.
> > >
> > > I assume XP has some facility for the same as did win9?, but I've not
> > > had the need to research it on that virus.
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