From: Justin Mason (jm at domain jmason.org)
Date: Sun 22 Sep 2002 - 14:21:03 IST
Brendan Kehoe said:
> He argues that two identical systems, 800MHz each, show his reason not to do
> it. He's got RH7.3 on one box, and uses mozilla 1.1. He's got XP
> Professional on the other, and also uses mozilla 1.1. On the XP host, he
> shows how that system's browser displays web pages at a much faster rate than
> does the same box with RedHat on it. Then he uses IE, and that's even (a
> bit) faster. Add privoxy on the linux box actually made it a bit
> slower---I'd hoped the editing out of crap would help, but the XP box still
> flew.
What's the X server running on the RH7.3? It may be using unaccelerated,
plain-VESA or plain-SVGA drivers by default, and moz does a lot of
scrolling and chrome drawing.
Also what's the network setup? Could also be an ethernet issue, even
cabling!
(ps: must get in contact sometime soon, now that we're both back in
Dublin!)
--j.
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