Re: Low-latency & pre-emptive patches for improving old laptop...
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On Monday 21 July 2003 04:40 pm, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote:
> Hello all,
> I just got a semi-broken old laptop (acer 701t - p2/233 - 32mb
> ram - 3g hdd...) from a friend of mine, which I plan to fix &
> use. I already installed debian sid on it & everything works
> fine (even divx playback with mplayer :).
> I have used low-latency & pre-emptive patches on some desktop
> boxes in the past with no significant speed improvements (they
> were quite fast already anyway), however I was wondering if
> these patches should have any impact on this old laptop's
> performance.
>
> Any suggestions ?
In a word--yes. I have an old Gateway Solo 1200 laptop. It has winXP
installed. The machine was very slow. Multimedia reproduction was terrible
in many formats. Even playing quake2 was impossible after 2 minutes.
Linux: I installed Libranet 2.8betas 1,2&3. I pulled down the patches for
2.4.20 kernel, learned how to apply them, then built kernels. Linux
outperformed M$ hands down! It was wonderful to watch all the silly video
clips, as well as those I make myself with my Kodak digital camera.
I have not yet built any 2.4.21 kernels, but intuition tells me you won't be
sorry if you decide to use them on any older machine.
BTW, the solo has a 850MHz Celery chip. That was why I elected to learn how
to patch kernels :)
Good luck to you. Wishing you well.
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