 | | | Launching Applications | Launching Applications 2004-02-02 - By Dean Mumby
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Aaron Konstam wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:37:52AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Aaron Konstam wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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?
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>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,
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>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.
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it would be interesting to see what the perfomace of whitebox linux or
similar is like ?
Dean
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