Re: laptop performance

[Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>]

On Friday 30 December 2005 07:59, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two laptops:
>
> 1) Compaq Presario 2203 AL
> Processor: Intel Pentium M 1.5 Ghz
> RAM: 768 MB
> Video: Intel OnBoard with 32 Mb Shared Memory
>
> 2) Dell D600
> Processor: Intel Pentium M 2.0 Ghz
> RAM: 512 MB
> Video: ATI Radeon R250 FireGL 9000
>
> I run KDE on both the laptops. Even though I have 768 MB of RAM on the
> Compaq laptop I get lower performance on it compared to the Dell
> laptop. Disk reads are slower than the Dell D600 laptop.
>
> Here are hdparm results:
>
> Compaq:
> hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>         Timing cached reads:    1932 MB in 2.00 seconds = 965.18 MB/sec
>         Timing buffered disk reads:     70 MB in 3.05 seconds = 22.95
> MB/sec ( Round figure for it could be around 25 MB/sec)
>
> Dell:
> hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>         Timing cached reads:   1832 MB in  2.00 seconds = 914.77 MB/sec
>         Timing buffered disk reads:  100 MB in  3.03 seconds =  33.05
> MB/sec ( Round figure for it could be around 32 MB/sec)
>
>
> Even the system responsiveness on the Compaq laptop is sluggish.
> Does VGA play a _major_ role in system performance ?
> Is there anyway I can improve the performance on the Compaq laptop ?

Shared video memory is slower, uses system memory, afaik. 'hdparm 
-i /dev/hdx' will tell you the udma value/setting for your hd, looks like 
they are different .
-- 
Greg Madden