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Update: I think I may have found the potential hang up... a stick of the CORSAIR RAM looks like it suffered an electrical surge and was fried along with the RAM slot on the mobo ... going to get a free replacement per my warranty and service plan... will see if I get that nice performance when I get the new box.

ext2 is my filesystem. 1024 MB CORSAIR XMS3200 (no 4 GB support kernel compilation though) 250 MB Swap (hardly ever used) XP command line is beating down Mandrake by a good margain in Lifemapper... and I'd imagine in SETI@Home too. My SETI@Home efficiency is around 9.75 CPU cycles / FLOP ... it lists the optimal performance of a PIV Northwood at about 6.0 to 6.2 CPU cycles / FLOP depending on RAM type. I have passed a few parameters using hdparm that got a small increase in hard drive I/O ... but I think my speed is hurt by a really bad latency hiding somewhere (??), inefficient use of data after it is taken from the hd, or lack of architecture specific optimization. I know it will go faster than this. I got Linux to be absolutely outrageously smoking fast after compiling 2.6.3-7mdk to my needs (4 GB memory... architecture optimized... "fat" removed...) ... however installing the nVidia driver ruined by day by ruining the XFree86 installation :( Also had issues with "vanishing hardware" when booting from kernel 2.6.3-7 back to 2.6.3-4

--- Update --- Terminated these processes: - netfs - xinetd - xfs --- New hardware Specs --- Pentium IV 2.8 Ghz, 800 Mhz FSB (3,150.5 Mhz, 900 MhzFSB) Asus P4P800 (1016) -- Turbo mode and PAT (aka MAM) enabled Timings: 2.5 : 3 : 3 : 6 : 4 (5:4) 1.6v CPU core 1.6v AGP 2.75v DDR Latency for PCI set to 32 DDR Core clock 320 Mhz Legacy USB disabled 128 AGP Disable spread spectrum Thanks for any further tweak help that can provided. I'm for speed.

Nothing too bad. Most always have GAIM / Firebird / XMMS or Totem running... perhaps a Konquerer open to my home dir .... console or two.... Kwrite.

alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off dm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off kheader 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off partmon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off random 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off rawdevices 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off keytable 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off oki4daemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off portmap 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off hotplug 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off nfslock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off devfsd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off internet 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off harddrake 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off numlock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off mtink 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off cups 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off tmdns 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off xinetd based services: rsync: off fam: on cups-lpd: off cvs: off For comparison purposes... OS || Average Time Per Work Unit ------------ || -------------------------- Windoze XP || 15 mins, 30 secs MDK 10.0 || 25 mins, 10 secs MDK 10.0* || 21 mins, 30 secs MDK 10.0** || ?? mins, ?? secs * Using Wine ** After tweeking

I have a need for speed. After seeing Windoze XP ****smoke**** MDK 10.0 in some distributing computing command line (DOS / BASH) tasks... I am no longer happy. Could somebody provide me instructions / a link to a site with instructions for installing MDK 10.0 fully optimized from the ground up? I have compiled MDK cooker kernels optimized for P4, but I had issues when switching kernels... namely disappearing hardware Definately want everything to operate off these flags: -march=pentium4 -03 -pipe I saw how Gentoo is geared towards this sort of thing, but fell into cardiac arrest upon seeing the installation "handbook" -- aka Crime and Punishment. (Not to mention the LiveCD cannot get my 3C940 Gigabit LOM to work) Please help me get the true performance my penguin is capable of!