Re: Great new kernel 2.4.20-13.9!

[Andrew Schott <schotty core com>]

> With previous RedHat kernels on RH9, my laptop (which has terrible IDE
> performance) would become unusable under heavy write load.  It would
> often fail to start OpenOffice from a cold cache while up2date or
> yum were doing I/O. Now it starts, albeit slowly, and Mozilla or a terminal
> window start in a reasonable amount of time.


Hey, have you prelinked your system?  Mine is snappy as all hell.  I
used :

prelink -aRv


Add the option M if you wnat to conserve RAM a bit.  That makes OO.org
start in 6-7 seconds for me. Wheras it took literally 20-25 seconds
before.  Plus GNOME is alot snappier.

Good Luck !

Andrew