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Re: Executor Speed



> With 8MB of RAM you'll have trouble in X-windows. You should get at least
> 12MB to avoid excessive swapping. I have the same video card and the video
> performance is OK for most applications. Here are some benchmarks I did for
> the LJ article that was just published:
> 
>         MAC LC III 68040, 25 MHz        AMD486DX4-100
>                             S3 864, 8bit X
>                             under Linux 1.2.8

How much RAM do your AMD have ?

Also, as far as I know, the Mac LCIII have a 68030 processor...  The 
first LC Mac which get an '040 CPU was the LC475.

Third point, is your Linux version really 1.2.8 ? I read on this list 
5 minutes ago that v. 1.3.?? was a requirement.

Thanks for any details


> 
> Dhrystones  5.9                 8.4
> 
> Spedometer 
> CPU index   6.8                 13.9
> 
> Spedometer
> Graphics    7.6                 5
>                             5.1 (-privatecmap)
> Spedometer
> 8bit graphics   2.3                 1.2
>                             2.5 (-privatecmap)
> 
> Bottomline the DX4-100 is faster than a Mac LC III for almost everything and
> if one uses the -privatecmap option for X-windows the grapics performance is
> reasonable with an accelerated graphics card.
> 
> Hope that helps
> Andreas
> 
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>  Andreas Schiffler  Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies (ISAS),
>                     University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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>  Saskatoon Linux Group  http://www.link.ca/~stooky/slg/slg/index.html
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JMR