Re: Gnome speed

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 09:24:27PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Rob Brown-Bayliss <on_the_net clear net nz> writes:
> >  
> > > It may be the kernel - early 2.4 kernels had hosed VM subsystems that
> > > caused the desktop to seem very unresponsive.
> > 
> > It could be, but I belive the new VM comes in after 2.4.10 where as rh72
> > is 2.4.7
> 
> 7.2 is 2.4.7 with a VM that the Red Hat kernel team fixed up, though,
> it's not out-of-the-box 2.4.7.

  Also if you're still running 2.4.7 it's baaad. There have been a security
advisory and you definitely should upgrade to 2.4.9-13 [1]. You may not
see much changes from a VM perspective but 2.4.7 is not a good idea for
a multiuser system or a Gnome desktop.

Daniel

[1] http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/7.2/en/os/
    or any other archive of Red Hat updates.

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