General request .. Dismal performance of core 3 ..

[Elliot Lee]

Hi Sundara,

Do you have any specific benchmark numbers that demonstrate the problems
you explained?

Cheers,
-- Elliot

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Sundara Pandian wrote:

> This is a general request to Fedora developers and administrators,
> Pl work on improving the performance of the OS, We were very disappointed in
> the
> core 3 performance, We have core 3 , suse9.1 and redhat es running on 3 seperate
> machines with same hardware.
> Core 3 is almost twice as slow as suse9.1 in terms of performance (boot,
> application startup, java performance, samba etc) ..I am sure there is always
> some way to tweak performance, but it would be great if it was made available
> out of the box.
> And before you guys say piss off, I am stating this for commercial viability of
> an OS for redhat itself as fedora is seen as the forerunner for things to show
> up in redhat products. 
> performance is the major selling points of an OS.
> Small business with 50-100 users form majority of linux users. Recently there
> was a big discussion to move to windows although all the Network engineering
> group was against it, we started testing Fedora, suse9.1 and Fedora turned out
> to be a big disappointment, we are running suse enterprise and suse 9.1 clients
> now.
> I hope this rubs the positive side of developers and all who manage this
> project.