Is anyone else experiencing a marked slowdown in performance with Phoebe?
This box was running 7.3 as 8.0 wouldn't install. I eventually got rid of the problem (a RAID setup which the installer didn't like) and have installed 8.0.94.
Now I find that interactive performance i.e. using mutt, Pan, Mozilla etc. is on the order of a half or a third the speed I had with the 7.3 installation.
It seems as though anything needing any real processor power is much slower, to the point that the mouse pointer gets stuck for several seconds.
Hardware is a 1.4 Athlon Thunderbird with 768MB.
I dual boot to 7.3 and phoebe3 (8.0.94) because of CD burning integrity. I trust 7.3 a lot more for that purpose.
It seems like the later distributions are a bit more challenging on the systems.
8.0-8 is a great distribution for pulling in some of the current Microsoft users. It installed alright for me and was not that bad on my 233 MHz / 64 meg machine. Phoebe is a real challenge on this 490CDT Toshiba laptop.
For my 800 MHz / 512 MHz computer, I really don't notice many things being too slow to use. They all work fast enough for me.
I think that the "slowness" is because of the POSIX standard and trying to use the latest technologies. I think that the backporting of applications and kernels is causing some of the slowness for this beta version.
Another thing that might be causing the sluggish peformance are the newer programs that aren't being added to phoebe to at least ensure that these programs work alright.
Thes packages are newer than the programs that are currently on phoebe's up2date facility.
Jim
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