Poor Performance After Upgrade

ColdFusion · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 48

Hi all,

I've just upgraded my system from an Athlon XP 3000+, 512Mb RAM, some crappy graphics card, to an Athlon X2 3800+ (dual core), 1Gb Ram and a 6600GT.

I have kept my old hard drive, and hence my old gentoo installation (I'm a bit busy to reinstall with amd64 at the moment). The problem im having is that my system doesn't seem that much faster considering how much extra horsepower I have.

I've recompiled my kernel with all the required stuff for my new board (Asus A8N-SLI deluxe), SMP support is enabled, and DMA is on on my hard drive.

Now I'm not saying my system is slow, just no faster than before - e.g. compile times are very similar (I've set MAKEOPTS=-j3).

If anyone has any ideas/suggestions, they would be much appreciated.

Thanks, ColdFusion

E001754 · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:46 am Post subject:

Did you change your arch type in /etc/make.conf ??
Also (but I think you already made it), check your processor type in your kernel conf.

Think that the compilation time can perhaps be largely dependant of disk access. Hence, since you kept the same disk, is it normal to have the same compilation time, since compilation is perhaps more dependant of disk access rather than pure processing power ?
Know also that switching from 512 Mb to 1Go of RAM DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING IN LINUX, except for video / multimedia / photo applications.

Hope this helps

ColdFusion · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 48

The only things I did in /etc/make.conf were to change MAKEOPTS to -j3 and to add -msse3 to my CFLAGS.

Processor type is set correctly in my kernel config as well.

Another reason I feel my system is not as fast as it should be is when using DVDShrink. On my old box it took ~1.5 hours to shrink a DVD, and now it takes ~45 minutes (I see the difference here), but my girlfriend has also just had a new box (Athlon 64 3200+) and her's takes under 30 minutes to shrink the same DVD. Now I know her's is running natively on windows and mine is using wine, but there seems to be somewhat of a mismatch :S

Anyway, thanks for your help

ColdFusion

E001754 · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject:

Try with dvd::rip instead of emulated dvdShrink.
dvd::rip will do the same work, but natively under Linux.
Try using xvid codec for encoding your DVD in both cases, because I wonder that xvid is more power consuming than dvix.

note that 45 minutes with emulation seems not being a bad score after all.