Rawhide performance?

[Trond Eivind Glomsrød]

Dax Kelson wrote:
> I installed rawhide on a beefy desktop computer.
>
> AMD FX-55 CPU
> 2GB RAM
> 300GB SATA RAID1 (testing out the new dmraid integration)
> Nvidia 6800GT 256MB video (Qty 2 -- SLI)
> 1600x1200 resolution
>
> I haven't quantified it yet, but desktop GNOME performance seems very
> sluggish. Many seconds to launch apps. Many seconds for the GNOME panel
> menu to drop down and populate with icons. In general the lack of
> performance is bad enough to be very noticeable and annoying.
>
>   

One trick which improved performance from what you describe to ok for 
me, was rerunning fc-cache - I had a directory of fonts in my home 
directory, and it seemed to parse them every time something started.