Performance testing (pass 1)
Xose Vazquez Perez
xose at wanadoo.es
Mon Oct 6 00:48:59 UTC 2003
Stephan Schutter wrote:
> I compared Windows XP and RHL 9 on a Dell Laptop (C610)
> [...]
> One of the original sugestions of why to use Linux is that it could buy
> you longer life on the old hardware... this does not seem to be the case.
Windows XP use a set of NTFS utils(defrag, cache manager,...) to
load binaries and to boot faster: more information at 'Prefetch' secction:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/12/xpkernel/print.asp
Gentoo has a comparative about load times with prelink and w/o it:
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/performance.xml
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