Re: Speed difference RH8 vs RH9

From: Gireesh K. Bhat (girya_b_at_NOSPAM.yahoo.com)
Date: 07/05/03


Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 17:33:40 GMT

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 21:11:46 -0400, Tim Stanley wrote:

> Has anyone noticed a significant speed difference between RH8 and RH9? I
> have RH8 on a PII/233 box with 256M RAM and RH9 on an AMD K6/450 box with
> 256M. Seems that the RH8 installation runs circles around RH9. I have pretty
> much the same packages installed on both. Also, it seems that RH9 consumes
> much more memory than RH8.
Are you running KDE?
I have noticed that if you turn of some or all the "effects" in the KDE
gui it speeds up things considerably. In case you are running KDE go to
the Control Center and tweak stuff there.

Best Regards
Gireesh



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