Re: Gnome speed

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Rob Brown-Bayliss <on_the_net clear net nz> writes: 
> It's weird, but very definiate...  As I said, then machine was very
> usable before I installed rh7.2, but now it is 20-30% faster and I don't
> think there is that much difference in the gnome features of rh and
> ximian.  

It may be the kernel - early 2.4 kernels had hosed VM subsystems that
caused the desktop to seem very unresponsive.

Havoc