 | | | Launching Applications | Launching Applications 2004-02-02 - By joe
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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.
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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
>
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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.
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That typically indicates i/o issues - are you quite sure dma is enabled?
Joe
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