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Received: from zeus.gel.usherb.ca (zeus.gel.usherb.ca [132.210.70.7]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA05021 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 20:20:42 -0800 Received: from andrew.sca.usherb.ca by zeus.gel.usherb.ca (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16014; Mon, 4 Dec 95 23:20:38 EST Received: from ANDREW/SpoolDir by andrew.sca.usherb.ca (Mercury 1.21); 4 Dec 95 23:14:37 -0500 Received: from SpoolDir by ANDREW (Mercury 1.21); 4 Dec 95 23:14:20 -0500 From: "JEAN-MARC RANGER" <JMRANGER@andrew.sca.usherb.ca> Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke To: andreas@karlsberg.usask.ca (Andreas Schiffler), executor@nacm.com Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 23:14:14 -0500 Subject: Re: Executor Speed Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-Id: <30DA0BC5DC8@andrew.sca.usherb.ca> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > 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 > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------_ > Andreas Schiffler Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies (ISAS), > University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada > ------------------------------------------------------------------------_ > Saskatoon Linux Group http://www.link.ca/~stooky/slg/slg/index.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------_ > andreas@karlsberg.usask.ca andreas@milo.usask.ca > schifflr@debye.usask.ca schiffler@skisas.usask.ca > ------------------------------------------------------------------------_ > JMR