Adventures with Fedora in Biotech

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 19:43, Hugh Caley wrote:
> I work for a biotech company in California.  I have Fedora Core 1 
> running comfortably on my desktop, with sound, Xinerama, Gnome and 
> Windowmaker, etc.  It all seems to work pretty well.  Now I'm running 
> kernel 2.6.1 as well.
> 
> We had problems with it in a server context, however.  We had set up a 
> couple of dual 2.8 mhz Xeon boxes with 4 gig of ram for running 
> bioinformatic perl scripts.  The results were disappointing; in many 
> cases the scripts would run at half the speed they would run on other 
> slightly slower (but still Xeon 2.x) servers which were running RedHat 8 
> or 9.

The 2166 update kernel has a lot of VM improvements especially for boxes
with highmem. Its possible this would have fixed your problem.

	Dave