Disk I/O - too slow?
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Tue Feb 24 16:08:13 UTC 2004
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Don Levey wrote:
> fedora-list-admin at redhat.com wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 22:56, Don Levey wrote:
> >> I've been looking for performance tweaks, as certain things seem a
> >> bit slow, such as I/O and display. I had gotten a hot display card,
> >> for example, from ATI on the basis of their having Linux drivers -
> >> only to find that those drivers are... incomplete. I was hoping to
> >> make up some speed at disk level. Oh well.
> >> Thanks again,
> >> -Don
> >
> > My laptop has a Radeon Mobility 7500. With glxgears I get an average
> > of 1036.400 FPS running in 16bit mode. My desktop has a decent
> > Gefore 3 Ti 500 and I get about 3,200 FPS with glxgears.
> >
> > Run glxgears for about 20 seconds to see what kind of FPS you get. Do
> > not resize the window, leave it at the default. You could also try to
> > run glgears in 16bit mode by chaning the DefaultDepth in your "Screen"
> > section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
> >
>
> Unfortunately, I've got the Radeon 9600 Pro, which apparently doesn't offer
> 3D support in Linux. My output from glxgears averages around 95-100 fps. I
> haven't tried at 16-bit depth yet.
your best bet is ati's proprietary driver... or an older slower card.
> -Don
>
>
>
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