On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:51:51AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > My fast machine is a Pentium 2 clocking at 348 Mhz with 192
Mb RAM
> > The Celeron slowpoke clocks at 701 and sports 512 Mb RAM
> How are you measuring fast? For some workloads, that's completely to be
> expected.
Latency of keystrokes. I press the key and the feedback is oo so slow.
In my case it's TTS feedback, not on screen, but same principle. Both
machines have the exact same TTS board (ISA) and software drivers, both
running FC4, but this was also true FC 3.
Hmmm. That should be next to instant on either system. I wonder if something
is simply configured badly and introducing a delay.
I'm going to make the assumption that you're not running a heavyweight GUI
environment such as GNOME or KDE. In that case, the greater RAM is probably
not usually a factor at all. And the Celeron 700 is a very low-end chip with
pretty low overall performance.
The 348Mb box is snappy. I press [char], I hear [char] echoed out
the
TTS. On the slow machine, I would warrant there's a delay of hundreds of
ms. Not measured, but I'd warrant on the order of 400-700 ms.
On the other hand, either machine ought to be able to do better than that.
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