On Tue, 18 May 2004, Lee Hosty wrote:
> <call me a troll if you like but ... > I can encode DVDs via xvid,
> play mp3s via winamp5, have 5 tabs open in firefox, run
> thunderbird, paint shop pro, MS-SQL, anti-virus service, and
> macromedia products simultaneously without any noticable effects on
> *W2k* with 256 Mb RAM. Either you're doing something wrong or
> fedora is even worse bloatware than windows. </possible troll>
You're not a troll. RedHat 9 and FC1 are attrociously slow unless you
have a lot of RAM. It annoyed the life out of me. However, switching
to 2.6 and setting swappiness to a low figure has made a _huge_
improvement.
regards,
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