[plug] Linux dist claims

[John Summerfield]

> "up to . ." is a favourite prefix for quantitative claims of superiority - I
> wonder why they left that off?  Of course leaving of the suffix " . . than
> [well-known distribution[s]]" helps with avoiding libel.

Before getting excited about 30% improvement in glibc, run procinfo and 
see just how busy your computer actually is.

If you don't have procinfo installed and don't want to bother: wh, here is 
what it says here:
[summer at possum updates.redhat.com]$ procinfo
Linux 2.2.10 (root at possum.os2.ami.com.au) (gcc 2.7.2.3) #3 [possum]

Memory:      Total        Used        Free      Shared     Buffers      
Cached
Mem:         63224       61736        1488       17524       16628       
16500
Swap:       128484        8772      119712

Bootup: Thu Jun 17 22:03:53 1999    Load average: 0.04 0.08 0.04 1/62 3921

user  :       1:32:36.57   4.8%  page in :   321337  disk 1:    13368r     
  0w
nice  :       0:00:00.25   0.0%  page out:    98548  disk 2:    52744r   
24357w
system:       0:16:44.93   0.9%  swap in :    29949  disk 3:        4r     
  0w
idle  :   1d  6:23:04.48  94.3%  swap out:    25988
uptime:   1d  8:12:26.22         context : 23260496

irq  0:  11594623 timer                 irq 10:    893680 SMC EPIC/100     

irq  1:     50866 keyboard              irq 12:   3304816 PS/2 Mouse       

irq  2:         0 cascade [4]           irq 13:         1 fpu              

irq  5:       157 soundblaster          irq 14:     89851 ide0             

irq  8:         0 rtc                   irq 15:        18 ide1             

irq  9:        77 aic7xxx              

[summer at possum updates.redhat.com]$ rsh emu procinfo
Linux 2.2.9 (root at emu) (gcc 2.7.2.3) #2 Sat May 15 05:34:50 WST 1999 [emu]

Memory:      Total        Used        Free      Shared     Buffers      
Cached
Mem:         95632       93420        2212        3352        2820        
6328
Swap:       112888       50668       62220

Bootup: Mon May 31 17:58:42 1999    Load average: 1.80 1.45 1.11 2/76 5464

user  :      21:29:34.45   4.8%  page in : 11868295  disk 1:     5632r  
104821w
nice  :       4:07:05.20   0.9%  page out: 10180404  disk 2:   435747r 
1546418w
system:       6:04:11.23   1.4%  swap in :   379330  disk 3:  1425645r  
690321w
idle  :  17d  4:37:14.11  92.9%  swap out:   362913
uptime:  18d 12:18:04.92         context :178544159

irq  0: 159948499 timer                 irq  7:  42097443 parport0         

irq  1:     11568 keyboard              irq  9:   3574166 SMC EPIC/100     

irq  2:         0 cascade [4]           irq 10:    938145 eth0             

irq  3:    180197 serial                irq 13:         0 fpu              

irq  4:  75123905 serial                irq 14:  17918372 ide0             

irq  5:         1 soundblaster          irq 15:  30632578 ide1             

irq  6:         3                      

[summer at possum updates.redhat.com]$ 


possum is a PII-233, emu a P-133.

I gave VAJ 3.0 a workout yesterday: it's a little slow, but no amount of 
optimising libc, kernel etc will help anything like updating to a PIII-500.

For most folk, these optimisations are a pointless game.
-- 
Cheers
John Summerfield
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