Laptop-enhancing patches

[Tim Schmidt]

One other reason that machine tends to exagerate issues...  It has
128Mb of 66Mhz SDRAM.  The 430TX / Pentium MMX combination can only
cache information from the first 64Mb.  Hell, the thing only has 32k
of cache anyway, but things loaded past the first 64Mb do incur even
more of a hit when accessed.  I'll apply at least the patch Xfree86
context switching patch and report later.

--tim


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:19:06 -0400, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> If anyone's interested, I have a user on a 233Mhz Intel Pentium w/
> MMX...  I have more detailed specs, but here's a rough outline:
> 
> 233Mhz Intel Pentium w/ MMX
> Intel 430TX chipset w/ 0k L2 cache (yes, that's no L2)
> Integrated 2Mb ATI graphics adapter (I'll get an lspci listing if
> anyone's interested)
> 30Gb Maxtor UDMA-66 HD (connected to the i430TX's UDMA-33 controller)
> A Lucent (Agere) PCI Winmodem
> 
> Believe it or not, this machine is being used quite effectively as a
> desktop machine with a default Ubuntu install (Fedora Core 1 before
> that).  I'm glad to report that Ubuntu seems snappier on the hardware,
> although Mozilla Firefox is slightly slower to load and render pages
> than Epiphany from FC1.  If other things like mouse, keyboard,
> monitor, etc. etc. are important to anyone I can report on those as
> well.
> 
> I'd be glad to test any performance / interactivity related patches on
> this machine...  It tends to make small changes stand out more.
> 
> --tim
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:53:14 +1000, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:47 +1000, Paul Drain wrote:
> > > All three make a huge difference to responsiveness and lower disc
> > > swapping levels on my Celeron 600Mhz desktop machine, a dual P4 3Ghz and
> > > my iBook too.
> >
> > Interesting. I've heard of a few people using different kernels on their
> > less-chunky Ubuntu machines, because they feel (or are) faster. We
> > should probably be avoiding this kind of thing. ;-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > - Jeff
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