Really, REALLY slow computer

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

zephod at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> So, 
> new job and a shiny new HP Duo Core computer with 2G RAM and twin 250G
> ATA drives, loaded with Windows XP of course. The 1st thing I do is to
> load FC6 on the 2nd of the disks. After 2 days (!) I have everything
> loaded and updated but the system is running really, and I mean REALLY
> slow. It takes about 15 mins to boot up and 5 to log in. Both processors
> are heavily loaded but yet top shows nothing out of the ordinary, memory
> usage is abot 15%.

Bad news: I have a HP DC7700. It is unusable with FC6. Don't even bother.

Good news: It is OK with FC7T3 (certain kernel arguments are required in 
grub.conf, something about "noapci", I forget the exact details right now).

The newer kernel on FC7T3 has much better support for the onboard devices.

My only problem at the moment is that the system clock loses time even 
though the nptd server is running.

- Mike