So I decided to try and install Leopard onto my Gigabit Ethernet. I ran LeopardAssist from Tiger and rebooted to a kernel panic. Some googling alerted me to the fact that my firmware was a bit on the old side so after applying the update from Apple I happily installed and updated to 10.5.8.
I was expecting it to be a bit of a pig. And it kinda was at the start. Top showed that mdworker was killing the CPUs so I disabled indexing ("sudo mdutil -avi off") and the idle load went from 60-70% to about 4%. I'd already swapped out the Rage 128 for the Radeon 9000 from my dead MDD so while I still lack CoreImage it's still quite usable (adding a CI-compatible card means losing acceleration in OS9).
I ran XBench on both Tiger and Leo and it was pretty close. Leo won out in some tests, Tiger in others.
I was expecting it to be a bit of a pig. And it kinda was at the start. Top showed that mdworker was killing the CPUs so I disabled indexing ("sudo mdutil -avi off") and the idle load went from 60-70% to about 4%. I'd already swapped out the Rage 128 for the Radeon 9000 from my dead MDD so while I still lack CoreImage it's still quite usable (adding a CI-compatible card means losing acceleration in OS9).
I ran XBench on both Tiger and Leo and it was pretty close. Leo won out in some tests, Tiger in others.
