On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 07:08:10PM -0800, joe wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > >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. > > > > > Much bigger mozilla now? more plugins, which you weren't using before? > bigger mail files? > > >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 > > > > > Agreed, RH9 is very sluggish in a number of scenarios - but OTOH fedora > is much snappier than 7.3 > > >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. > > > > > That typically indicates i/o issues - are you quite sure dma is enabled? > > Joe First, dma did nothing. Second, I am running fedora on a processor and memory challanged machine and it is much slower than 7.3. ------------------------------------------- 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
