-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The thing that has me puzzled is my business partner's Toshiba notebook computer, a Satellite Pro 6100. He has Win XP on it, and then added RH 9 in a dual-boot setup. Under XP, he had installed the Cygwin environment.
He has a fairly large text file that he needs to sort. Using the "sort" program under Cygwin on WinXP, he reports that the sort completes in about half the time that the same sort on the same input data runs under RH 9. He also reports similar time differences for other compute and disk I/O processes. I wouldn't think that window managers, etc. would have much to do with this. It's the same hardware. I'm guessing that Cygwin did not re-write the "sort" command, but is using the same Gnu sort and gcc that Linux uses (circa minor version differences). He found a BIOS setting that claims to force the CPU in high performance mode at all times, and that helped narrow the speed difference to where it is now. Any ideas on what I can tell him to do to get Linux running almost as fast as Win XP? Faster would be even better, of course. :-) Ron. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPzQAsm8pw+2/9pUJEQI4egCg2chbABQsOmgw1ETGesMqNGTMsK0AoO3d fwKqoFkEZf7iZ6aPHReE6prL =W0YE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
