søn, 17.10.2004 kl. 17.46 skrev Rui Miguel Seabra: > Okay, after the scare subject, I warn: > > 1) installed on a Pentium II, 350Mhz with 128 MB of memory was usable > 2) installed on a Pentium III, 500Mhz laptop with 512 MB of memory was > UNUSABLE > > Get the weird part? Both of them were pretty normal installations. Disks > wiped clean with LVM, SELinux on. > > There were no error messages at all. None whatsoever. > > The laptop in question is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4280. > > Since my gf needed her computer working, I decided to just try a recent > Ubunto installation. It was way faster than FC2 ever was on it, even > though the desktop is also GNOME 2.8. However, it doesn't include > SELinux or LVM support for / . > > I'd like to go back to FC3 on that laptop when it comes, but I can't > perpetually test it that hard, how can I give more information that > might prevent such weird things to happen again? > > I have free space enough for a parallel installation, but it will never > be the same as a default Workstation... > > Rui I have noticed to. My test box is a 128 MB RAM 500 mhz P3 old deskpro, which was pretty fast under fc3t2 and Suse 9.1. But under fc3t3, fc2, fc1, and rh9 it was (is) slow as... - it seems to be swapping much less efficently. t2 and t3 was with the "as delivered on cd" kernels. What is differce between t2 and t3? what happened?