On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:37:52AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > I am afraid that is the lot of people with that slow a processor and > > that amount of RAM running Shrike. RedHat is following the Microsoft > > model that as machines get faster you build more hardware intensive > > software to slow them down. > > Just wondering, here, but if most of the apps, in question, aren't > actually written by Red Hat, but merely compiled by Red Hat for inclusion > in their distribution, how do you actually find credibility in that > statement? > > -- Its just a frustration for those of us with less powerful machines. Red Hat does not have to write the software to include it in the distribution. All I am saying you need to be more selective about what you install. For example, the Mozilla loads maybe 5 times slower than the Mozilla in 7.3. Why I don't know. To be truthful I have been trying to pin down why RH 9 is so much slower than earlier distributions on the same hardware and I can't pin it down. For example I has to triple the RAM (from 128 -> 384) to be able to make RH 9 even mildly tolerable on my 450 MHZ machine at work, I would be glad to find someone who knows why this is happening. I have looked and I am stumped. I get load factors of > 3 when top says nothing is really running that is taking up more than a few percent of CPU time. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
