that's what I had thought too, but I had the same amount of services
going, just did an upgrade or install of 6.2 andthen tried 7.0. The whole
computer only cost $20, it's a nice thing to be able to run NFS, Apache,
anonFTP, telnet, INN, PPPoE, ipchains, and many other things on a computer
like that. Imagine win2000 doing that? HA!!
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Statux wrote:
> > is it any slower? When I upgraded RH 6.0 to 6.2 it got a lot slower on my
> > 486 with 8MB of RAM. RH 7 was even slower...
>
> But it's not the kernel causing your slowdown issues if that's what you're
> inferring. On an 8MB 486, any extra processes/services will cause a
> noticable slowdown. 8MB RAM will fill in no time causing the much slower
> swapping method to be used. The kernel versions between those 3 RH distros
> aren't too much different in size. I think 6.0 was kernel 2.2.5 or
> somewhere in there.. 6.2 was about 2.2.14 I think, and 7.0 would be 2.2.16
> or 2.2.17.
>
> In short, there's only so much you can throw at an 8MB machine no matter
> what the CPU is :)
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> 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
