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11-02-2002, 09:54 PM
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Registered: Feb 2002
Location: IL
Distribution: Ubuntu currently, also Fedora, RHEL, CentOS
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Dual booting and performance hits
I do a lot of music production on my computer and need every ounce of performance out of it. I use linux on one box I have and I would like to use it on my music production computer when I am not actually doing a recording session, but will I take a performance hit by dual booting? I realize that lilo/grub have little to no impact on performance of the computer. I guess the question is, will have linux on one my hard drives have ANY impact on my windows operating environment. I realize it won't physically, other than less HD space. But what about speed? I commonly a m at 90% utilization of dual atlon mp 1800s and 1 gig of ECC ram. I need all I can get. If this would hurt my performace AT ALL, I can't afford to do it.
--MIKE
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11-02-2002, 10:47 PM
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There have been some other posts about having Windows and Linux on the same computer, on separate harddrives. If you Linux partition is sandwiched between 2 Windows partitions then you will see performance hits in Windows.
Look around, the post was within the last few days.
Jeremiah
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11-03-2002, 06:19 AM
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... but otherwise it won't affect performance at all. Another thing - Linux never takes more memory than your system has got (it's called pre-emptive scheduling of pages in and out of memory) hence, you are far less likely to get that "Out of Memory" error so common in Windows.
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