vladimir.martinov@dzak.co.uk (batevladi) wrote in message news:<948fcc0.0408130146.1bbc7cbe@posting.google.c om>...
> Hello All Slackers!
>
> I am buffeled! I have just upgraded my old system form 8.1 to 10.0 and
> the it all went from flash to a sloooooooow performance...
>
> Hardware:
>
> pIII 800, 384MB RAM, ATA HDD, i810 (all onboard), swap 128MB (used
> about 10% with system running Xorg and Gnome)
>
> Prior to install I removed all the lib, usr, etc and other system
> related directories, so it was almost clean/first install (I've kept
> only the /home directory with all the user files). Used the standard
> setup. ext2fs
>
> I am really puzzled as:
> - some programs like less and man take their time to render text in
> console mode (no X running in the background)
> - X takes its time to come up and GNOME is veeeery sloooooow when
> launching applications (while x required some tingling to get it tuned
> up to i810 I am still puzzled about the time it takes for less and man
> to render text).
> - I cant find any messages in the logs which can give me any clue, nor
> I can pinpoint an app that eats system resource when I run top.
>
> Did any of you have the same experience and would any one out there be
> able to tell me if I am doing something wrong....
>
> Long live slack!
>
> Vladimir

Well it did not (live long) on my machine...
I could not find a solution and could not wait for a kernel rebuild
(which I left to complete overnight), so Fedora is my new pet at home
took 20 minutes to install. (Slack was munching tars for 3 hours)

I'd like to know, though, if anyone has had a similar experience and
if they have solved it how did they do that... (I like slackware, and
prefer to see the icons of the original software and not the redhat
splashes... kind'a reminds me of another operating system)

Vladimir