Xandros slower then my windows installation

[gentine]

Hello, I recently installed the open circulation version of xandros, I then installed:

1.Nvida Nfore chipset for linux
2.Radeon video card drivers for linux (For my radeon 9600xt)

Now, I may have installed them wrong, I don't know

Then I ran a Pc pitstop test ( www.pcpitstop.com ) and the results were 400points lower then when I run my windows. Whats going on?

Pc pit stop also said:

unusually low memory performance

Memory performance of this system 3691 megabytes per second, is significantly lower than average. Systems with the same processor and amount of memory typically perform at a level of 5443 MB/s.

I am a linux newbie but I do know alot about computers, if someone could help out that'd be great.






Specs:

Ram: 512, (The person who installed it said it was super good quality and ran like 1gig of what I had before)

Cpu: AMD athlon 2.8

Video: radeon 9600xt




Please help, I really don't wanna go back to windows.

[truoc444]

i'm guessing their test is for the way Windows uses RAM. Linux uses RAM in an entirely different way which could skew the results.

[gentine]

Really? Well is there some sort of dionosgtics test that I could run on linux to see how its doing?

[apoorv_khurasia]

There is a top limit to which your memory can R/W data. You cannot go faster than that. Similarly there is a limit for the processor's cache also. You can see them by running a memtest (available on many distros at boot-time and also on LiveCDs). You can compare the results.

By the way no 512 MB ram can perform like 1GB. In case you think it is just get 1 GB RAM tio check that out.

[Freedom]

Now, I have only booted Xandros once and it seemed a bit heavy so I booted Ubuntu again. So I could be wrong on this one. But... Here's my input. Xandros is made to be REALLY user friendly. So doesn't it boot a LOT of things? How much memory do you have installed? As far as it being clunkier than WinBlows... I didn't think that was possible. Lol.

[barkingcat]

Now, I have only booted Xandros once and it seemed a bit heavy so I booted Ubuntu again. So I could be wrong on this one. But... Here's my input. Xandros is made to be REALLY user friendly. So doesn't it boot a LOT of things? How much memory do you have installed? As far as it being clunkier than WinBlows... I didn't think that was possible. Lol.

THis is my experience also - I have 1Gig of Ram, 2.4ghZ processor - but it's definitely much slower than Win XP Pro. Very disappointed!

[kimwally]

I've been running Xandros 3 no problems -so when 4 became available
thought i'd install it -dual boot with xp and it's painfully slow. did an 3 install on same machine -triple boot -it's no problem -fast but not as sexy looking.so, it's not the machine -it's xandros 4!
also thought i'd take the anti-virus trial offered -now i can't uninstall it!
keeps telling me trial is up -but can't get rid of the mongrel thing!anyone with a clue?