On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 01:59:14 -0700, batevladi wrote:

> 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

Hmm, it just doesn't make sense. I like redhat, we use it at work, but
switched back to slack after the newer versions of RH were giving me
terrible performance. I run slack on a Pii 300 and PIII T40 IBM laptop and
it runs great. One time I had a weird issue with X - ran better on RH than
slack. I installed both OSe's side by side on the same machine and was
able to mount the root disk as a regular partition so I could compare set
up and config files. If you have the time that might be the way to go.
Just a guess but made its has something to ATA drive?? Do you look at the
hdparm settings?