On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 09:18:04AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > It's time. Can't stand it any longer so Jessie to get reinstalled. > > This fresh install of Stretch has given me network problems, slow display to > the point of having to wait for a mouse click or wheel movement to take > effect along with some other less important changes that needed to be > disabled, bypassed or otherwise massaged to work. Comparatively, Jessie was > blazingly fast and problem free on the exact same hardware and I don't find > any indications of what's holding up the show. Everything just runs slower. > I've been using Debian since Hamm and never had issues like this. Up to > this point every release has been an improvement. > Stepping back. >
That's fascinating because I found the opposite -- my circa-2009 self-built Intel Core i7 920-based machine surged ahead when I upgraded from jessie to stretch -- really felt like everything was that little bit more alive. I'd had no complaints about jessie performance but suddenly everything was that bit nippier. I use Gnome if that is anything to do with anything. I also have a decent loadout of RAM -- 24GB -- and I have no metrics of how much memory OS is using for example, between jessie and stretch. Perhaps that is a factor. This installation, when it was jessie, was itself an upgrade from wheezy, so not a particularly clean install. I've been a Debian user since 1995, I built this machine in 2009 and installed whichever came first of etch and squeeze on it. When wheezy was testing, I did a re-install, possibly after a disk failure following the 2011 Great Kanto Earthquake which one of my hard disks didn't enjoy, and then wheezy got upgraded to jessie when jessie was testing, then I sat on jessie until stretch became stable. Sure I had some small issues with the upgrade, but in general they were relatively minor compared to the "good old days" and as I say, performance over here is great. That probably doesn't help you much, but let the record show that stretch does work great for at least some people... Mark
