Re: Yellowdog Speed!!


Subject: Re: Yellowdog Speed!!
From: Philippe L. Houze (plhydl@blackdiamondltd.com)
Date: Sat Jun 23 2001 - 08:07:15 MDT


Hi,

I just checked my PPC 9600/350 and it shows 232.65 BogoMIPS, if this is what
you are looking for.
Under YDL 2.0.

Philippe

----- Original Message -----
From: Irena and Richard Jenkins <rjenkins@pop.alphalink.com.au>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 7:35 AM
Subject: Yellowdog Speed!!

> Greetings Everyone!
>
> The sending of this message under netscape confirms that I have YDL
> (1.2.1) working on this 6360. Until today I had a barrier with xwindows
> ... and I surpassed it only by changing the video arrangements at boot
> time. By deselecting the video option at boot time and then specifying
> the resolution and colour depth I have managed to get a working
> display. Success at last!!
>
> 6360 is also known as a 4400 I believe ... and features a 603 processor
> running at 160 MHz. Basic CPU speed is 40 MHZ. However, my control
> centre in xwindows reports a speed of less than 5 Bogomips. I have
> heard that there is some discussion among geeks about the accuracy of
> Bogomips ... but my old 166 MHz pentium (which I sold) reported no less
> than 133 Bogomips! This is many, many times the speed of my 6360. Do
> other users find that their machines are slow...s l o w ?? Having a
> step back to more than twenty times slower is a bit of a let down.
>
> I run a 64 meg swap file ... and there is 80 meg of RAM on board. I
> have no complaint about the speed under MacOS 8.5! I replaced the 1 G
> hard drive with an IBM model (of around 4 Gig) ... so while not express
> ... I was certainly looking for reasonable performance. Do others
> notice the delays in displaying the window manager and in completing
> basic tasks like displaying large directories??
>
> Can we compare speed notes? G4, G3 etc ... may stand to one side for
> this ...(G)
>
> Richard
>
>
>



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