Performance testing on an old Pentium II-400

[Moderator BobC]

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Thanks. antiX is doing pretty well using 86 mb. It’s not fast but IceWM runs well, and lighter apps do just fine.

I still have epiphany browser installed. It takes a couple minutes to come up but it does work. It needs all of the CPU but doesn’t use much memory. I have plenty of disk space, and loaded 386 full and 386 full runit.

I tried badwolf again but it went black again. Same with surf.

Netsurf works but can’t log in here.

antiX viewer works and can login here but gives a security error.

For its age the machine does pretty well. Its useful for finding out if any program is too heavy for older machines.

I guess I’ll give it a break till antiX 21 386 version comes out.

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BobC wrote:

I tried badwolf again but it went black again. Same with surf.

If you are interested, I got a better experience with Surf by building the latest git version instead of using the Debian version (which is over 2 years out of date). Needs some dependencies, I think this is the list: build-essential git webkit2gtk-driver libgtk-3-dev libgcr-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev

Then –
git clone https://git.suckless.org/surf
cd surf
make clean install

Start it with ‘surf antixlinux.com’ or whatever website. Keyboard shortcuts are at ‘man surf’. Website is here: https://surf.suckless.org/

Probably best if you remove the Debian version first. It still wasn’t perfect, for example I could play a youtube video but could not fast forward it without crashing the browser. But most stuff worked.

Edit – fixed the youtube video fast forward problem by installing the gstreamer1.0-gl package.

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[Moderator BobC]

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Hmmm, Good call!

Looks like it works on my 64 bit system.

I’ll take it over to the old P II and see if it works there, too.

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Question… if I compile surf on my 64 bit system, can I run that compiled code on my P II or do I need to do a special compile to generate code for a different processor?

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BobC wrote:

Question… if I compile surf on my 64 bit system, can I run that compiled code on my P II or do I need to do a special compile to generate code for a different processor?

I’ve never tried that with a suckless utility. I’ve built Surf and DWM and slstatus and st and dmenu a bunch of times, but I’ve never tried to transfer them from one system to another. I always just built on the target system. They are very small, and compilation takes almost no time. Seems like it would be worth a try though.

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