FC3 swapped my vaio into useless thrashing

[Timothy Murphy]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> So, I tried FC3 on my Sony VAIO, pcg-sr33. I noticed that the
> performance wasn't great, and then I tried to do a yum update. The disk
> thrashed so much that nothing on the screen would refresh. I finally had
> to power it down.

Did you try running it in text-mode (Ctrl-Alt-F1)?

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