[plug] slowdown probs

[John Knight]

RH 7.1 is what they're using at the moment, mp3s are reduced to a gibbering 
pile of skipping mush on a P100! RH 7.0 wasn't looking too clever either, 
neither was Mandrake (our favoured mainstream distro) 7.2 for that matter 
(even though it uses the 2.2 kernel), but it was still better than RH 7.1.

>
>John Knight wrote:
> >
> > What I mean here is that on a distro a year or so old, Gnome and KDE run
> > perfectly smoothly but smegging awful now. Why is there such a drastic
> > change? Surely the coding gets better with time on these, making them 
>run
> > faster?
> >
> > My mates are using S3 Trios, which are PCI. I'm afraid that KDE is 
>necessary
> > though as Aston is also part of the KDE UK Translation Team and needs to 
>run
> > KBabel (unless KBabel can be run under WindowMaker, most X apps are
> > interchangeable, aren't they?). Plus, KDE is the better Desktop in our
> > opinion.
>
>How up to date is the distro?  I'm now running rh 7.1 and have noticed a
>slowdown in performance along with more swapping.  The install stuff for
>rh 7.1 does warn that then 2.4.blah kernels swap a lot more so that may
>be what you are seeing.
>
>gavin
>


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