Re: thinkpad 760c speed

[Steve Hultquist <ssh@wwsi.com>]

At 09:37 AM 2/15/96 EST, Lee Hetherington wrote:
>I recently got my 120MHz pentium 760c running linux (slackware 3.0.0,
>linux 1.2.13).  It is maxed out with 40MB of memory.  Anyways, what is
>puzzeling me is that it seems slower than I would've expected.  I know,
>I know, I shouldn't complain about the speed of such a "fast" thinkpad,
>but I'm trying to run some serious programs on it.

What about disk usage? The ThinkPads disks are pretty slow...

>When I ran it I was getting about 6.7 to 7.7 MFLOPS (program prints this
>out, I have no idea if they are meaningful numbers in the absolute
>sense).  This morning I took out my expansion 32MB of memory and was
>suddenly up to 9.5 MFLOPS.  After putting the memory back in I was still
>at 9.5 MFLOPS.  Wierd.  Does this mean anything to anyone?

Paging space?

Cheers,
ssh
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