Performance shock

[Travis Rousseau]

On 4/24/05, Gábor Iglói <mdjake at gmail.com> wrote:
> > All these speed of loading problems may be so but, at least to me, are
> > totally overshadowed by the fact that, once you load them, you can just
> > leave the programs up and running almost forever.  I'll take
> > slightly slowly loading apps over blue screens of death any day.
> 
> Aye! Don't take it as flaming, but:
> 
> - booting up Linux is maybe slightly slower (or even not due to XP's
> "here's the desktop still you cannot do anything with it until I load
> all programs" trick), but this is a thing that you need to do only
> once daily or weekly :)))
For me on my laptop they are about the same (linux is about a second
slower with a gentoo install and about 3 seconds with ubuntu, now if i
get linux to start servers when it starts up it takes a good 10+
longer. (this is to where you can do stuff in windows)( i have only
tested this on my laptop)
> - in the hands of an ordinary everyday user (I mean ORDINARY here and
> not the Power User scanning for viruses and spyware every day and not
> clicking on everything) the faster application launch times last for
> 2-3 weeks, after that the performance drops significantly due to lack
> of "system maintenance" and defragmenting - while almost any flavour
> of Linux system has the same speed even after years due lack of
> "desintegration"/fragmentation.
> 
I have never got more speed in windows, (2000pro, 2000server
2003server and xp pro) on any of my computers I have even asked many
of the top IT people in some of canada's oil industry and i have
folowed they're advice (most of which i knew before) and its never
faster for me in windows. If you can give me advice off list that
works that would be awesome!

What really bothers me is the schools that have 300+ computers and all
but one or two (that nobody can use) are really infected with viruses
and have not been defragmented or re-installed in over 2 years....
some of the computers  have used where 2Ghz and were not even as fast
as some of my 600Mhz computer because of all the problems.

The best is one of my friends computers was infected with 89 viruses
and 32 trojans, I told him i'd fix it i threw on linux!

Travis .R