On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, fred smith wrote: > I'm sure someone else has already asked this, but allow me to bring > it up too... > > I've just done a fresh install of 7.2 on my wife's system, the only thing > that changed is we put in a new hard drive, and instead of copying the > 6.2 and upgrading, we just did a fresh install. > > It is OBVIOUSLY much slower at everything than was 6.2 on the same > hardware. This is not a high-end machine, but OTOH it's no serious > woofer either. it's a K6-2/350 with 128meg of PC100 RAM. it's run 6.2 > nicely for over a year with reasonable performance. All of a sudden, with > 7.2 booted you think you're gonna die waiting for anything you do. >
<snip> Fred, I installed the beta version of Red Hat Linux 7.2 on a system with 128 MB of memory, and also noticed how slow it was compared to my main system (256 MB of memory and SCSI drive). I first blamed it on the smaller amount of memory, but then a fellow pointed out that there is a good chance it could also be due to the kernel itself and all the VM issues it has been experiencing. Did you try installing a different kernel from the 2.4 series? Did you try with the ac kernels? I still have a feeling if you add more memory (pretty cheap these days, isn't it? :) ) it should work fine. Of course, that brings up a completely different issue: is Red Hat Linux able to run on older hardware with not so much memory? My guess is that it would as long as you don't install XFree86, KDE, Gnome, etc. but this is admittedly only a guess. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Nitebirdz ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.linuxnovice.org News, tips, articles, links... *** XFS for Linux: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs *** *** http://www.mozilla.org *** _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
