Yeah, I noticed that 7.2 was slower than 6.2, as well... I was expecting NOT to notice, though, as I last ran 6.2 on a PIII 500, but am now running 7.2 on a AMD K7 1.2Ghz w/256 mb ram... I expected it to scream!
It IS faster, though, now that I have upgraded the kernel to 2.4.9-12, and force the controler into ata66 mode! This made me have to recompile VMWare Express, for which there is a patch, but I noticed that it compiled for 686, and it is a tad faster than before, too. The only problem I have now is sound, but that's another thread! --Jon On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 02:00, Gustav Schaffter wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
