Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:50:37 -0400 (EDT) | From | Spirilis <> | Subject | Re: Low memory machines |
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> At home I have a VLB i486DX/100 with 32MB of memory running 2.1.108 and > 26MB of swap file. I recently installed my own brand of Linux 2.1.107 on > my machine at work (secretly), and it is a PCI Pentium 75 with 16MB of > RAM, with a 128MB swap file. > > The odd thing is that the P75 even with 16MB is faster than my i486DX/100 > with 32MB. Why? I'd have expected the P75 to be a lot slower due to the > size of the memory! > I've seen a similar situation... Someone I know had a 486 DX/100 with 16MB RAM... on an ethernet. Then he replaced the motherboard with a P66... same RAM. The BogoMIPS rating went down quite a bit, yet, the Pentium compiled a heck of a lot faster. I am thinking it's b/c of advances in overall data throughput... and not as much the instruction execution speed...
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