Running kernel-2.6.9-1.11_FC2 is insanely slow

[Christopher Calzonetti]

Further to this.

I did an update to Fedora Core 3, hoping that it was specific to the one 
kernel.  With no noticeable improvement.

Just so people have a better picture here, the boot time, to get to the 
actual login prompt of the GDM, under 2.6.9-1.6_FC2 from the grub 
selection screen is roughly 70 seconds.

The time to get from the grub selection screen to the "Hit 'I' for 
interactive startup" message at the start of the boot under the newer 
kernels is 50 seconds!  Everything else is similarly affected.

If anyone has ANY ideas, please let me know.


Christopher Calzonetti wrote:
> I upgraded to the new kernel yesterday, just using the default binary, 
> and the good news is that it looks like I can do a full sync with my 
> Palm Zire 72, which I wasn't able to do under 2.6.9-1.6_FC2.
> 
> Unfortunately, the whole system runs significantly slower than before, 
> to the point of making it unuseable.
> 
> I'm not sure how to go about solving this problem.  Can someone offer 
> some suggestions, or can someone else confirm that they are also having 
> this problem?

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Christopher Calzonetti, MFCF C&O Software Specialist
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