Re: Slow system with K7

[Alan Cox]

> 	1. the system is more loaded than in the pentium epoch
> 	2. sometimes, the system "stops" for small periods of time (< 1s).
> 	I am using 2.4.9 kernel. Can you give me any tip to get the most
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I suspect that bit is your actual problem. 

> from my system?. I'm recompiling all applications and, yes, if once
> recompiled I can see that the system improves.

when using prefetches, mmx or 3dnow. For most code streams Athlon's seem
to extract good parallelism out of 586/686/k6/.. code.

Alan