General request .. Dismal performance of core 3 ..

[Sundara Pandian]

Tried both out of the box distros.

Quoting Thom Paine <thom at customnetworks.ca>:

> On Mon, 2004-20-12 at 12:09 -0500, Sundara Pandian wrote:
> > All,
> > 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.
> 
> Sometimes this tweaking you have to do yourself.
> 
> I tweaked my hard drive in my laptop and got over a 600% increase in
> performance.
> 
> My drive reads went from 4 M/S to over 21M/s. Just from a few little
> tweaks.
> 
> I'm not saying you will get that kind of increase for your system, but
> you do have to work with it and learn it a bit before you start saying
> it's slow.
> 
> And it's hard to compare apples to oranges.
> 
> If you have two completely same systems and one was slower, then you
> could compare a bit better.
> 
> -=/>Thom
> 
> 
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