Then I'll have to chime in a 'me too'. I've done an upgrade on three PC's. Two from 7.1 to 7.2. One from 6.2 to 7.2. No changes of hardware in any of these.
They now all feel as if someone had poured syrup into them. If it wasn't for ext3, I'd downgrade them. (I know it's possible to patch an earlier kernel to make ext3 work, but I just don't find the time for that.) Regards Gustav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, fred smith wrote: > <snip> > > I've also done (just today) a test install (probably will be blown away > > and re-done differently) on my system, which has also been running 6.2 > > for a year and a half.This machine is a PIII/450 with 192 meg of RAM. > > It also got a new hard drive and a promise Ultra/66 controller. Likewise, > > on this machine 7.2 also feels slow. > > > > both machines were set up with 500 meg of swap (since 2.4 seems to like > > having lots of it). Neither machine is swapping (at all) when we are > > doing things that are really slow. > > > > What in the world is going on? > > I'd say the only way to ensure your comparison is fair is to put 6.2 on > the new drives (since both got new drives, this could be a driver issue, > or ide tuning issue). > > If 6.2 seems faster on the *exact* same hardware, then it could be the > kernel. > > charles -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web site at http://www.schaffter.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
