Using 2.6 kernel still unusably slow

[Christopher Calzonetti]

One of those things did the trick.  Everything is totally speedy again! 
  Yay!  Big thank you.

Now, I guess I suppose I could just try undoing one or other of the 
options you suggested I change and see which one causes the problem again.

The big question is, is there any way to get this done automatically, or 
will every time a new kernel comes out from Fedora, will I have to 
download the source, manually change the options, and do all the compile 
stuff?

David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:51 -0500, Christopher Calzonetti wrote:
> 
> Some things that you might want to try (but, again, I'm just guessing)
> 
> make menuconfig
> 
> In Processor type and features  turn off "generic x86 support" and turn
> off high memory support.
> 
> In device drivers -> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support -> Other IDE chipset
> support -> activate [ ] Generic 4 drives/port support.
> 
> After install, add  "ide0=four" without quotes to the line in grub.conf
> that starts with "kernel" 
> 
>>From my perspective (which is odd at times), Linux seems to favor those
> who like to tinker. None of this will alter the existing kernel.
> 
> 
>>David Cary Hart wrote:
>>
>>>make menuconfig
>>>make all
>>>make modules_install
>>>make install
>>>
> 
> 
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