Re: [coLinux-users] performance

[Curtis, C. <Cra...@ec...>]

Holger Krull wrote:

>> I go through to make a project, it is MUCH slower than a 400MHz PC.  
>> I can look at my hard drive and see that the harddrive is not being 
>> touched almost at all during compilation, so this tells me I have 
>> enough memory.  Is colinux just much slower than a standalone linux PC?
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> According to my testing, you get the full processing power of your 
> cpu. I tested that with numerical simulation programms (fpu bound). It 
> doesn't make a difference real linux vs colinux.
> But i don't use swap at all, and know nothing about the disk speed you 
> get within colinux.
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The deal is the hard drive is not really being utilized.  I can look at 
Windows 2000's CPU utilization and during compilation, it only goes up 
to 1%.