Running kernel-2.6.9-1.11_FC2 is insanely slow

[Kam Leo]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:31:01 -0500, Christopher Calzonetti
<ccalzone at math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Further to this.
> 
> I did an update to Fedora Core 3, hoping that it was specific to the one
> kernel.  With no noticeable improvement.
> 
> Just so people have a better picture here, the boot time, to get to the
> actual login prompt of the GDM, under 2.6.9-1.6_FC2 from the grub
> selection screen is roughly 70 seconds.
> 
> The time to get from the grub selection screen to the "Hit 'I' for
> interactive startup" message at the start of the boot under the newer
> kernels is 50 seconds!  Everything else is similarly affected.
> 
> If anyone has ANY ideas, please let me know.
> 
> Christopher Calzonetti wrote:
> > I upgraded to the new kernel yesterday, just using the default binary,
> > and the good news is that it looks like I can do a full sync with my
> > Palm Zire 72, which I wasn't able to do under 2.6.9-1.6_FC2.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the whole system runs significantly slower than before,
> > to the point of making it unuseable.
> >
> > I'm not sure how to go about solving this problem.  Can someone offer
> > some suggestions, or can someone else confirm that they are also having
> > this problem?
> 
> --
> Christopher Calzonetti, MFCF C&O Software Specialist
>      mailto:ccalzone at math.uwaterloo,ca   phone:+1 519 885-1211 x7516
> 
> --

Boot time of 70 seconds may be normal for some users. Boot time is all
relative to cpu and hardware speeds. We need to have something with
which to guage whether your particular boot time is too long.  How
fast is your gear? As a general answer, on my system FC3 takes longer
than FC1 or FC2 to boot.