> 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.
>From what I can measure Athlon specific code really only makes a difference
when using prefetches, mmx or 3dnow. For most code streams Athlon's seem
to extract good parallelism out of 586/686/k6/.. code.
Alan
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