You might get faster response by following the advice given in http://www-oss.fnal.gov/projects/fermilinux/common/tips/Lang_Tips.html . On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Aaron Konstam wrote: > 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. > -- Steven Yellin -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
