> With previous RedHat kernels on RH9, my laptop (which has terrible IDE > performance) would become unusable under heavy write load. It would > often fail to start OpenOffice from a cold cache while up2date or > yum were doing I/O. Now it starts, albeit slowly, and Mozilla or a terminal > window start in a reasonable amount of time. Hey, have you prelinked your system? Mine is snappy as all hell. I used : prelink -aRv Add the option M if you wnat to conserve RAM a bit. That makes OO.org start in 6-7 seconds for me. Wheras it took literally 20-25 seconds before. Plus GNOME is alot snappier. Good Luck ! Andrew
