Appalling desktop performance in F8

[Robert F. Chapman]

I also have an older IBM Thinkpad, mine is a A21p with 384MB ram and
runs just fine.  The only issue I have had is getting my older LeArtery
Syncbyair wireless card to work.  It is a older Intersil PRISM I card
and it looks like the orinoco_cs no longer supports PRISM I cards and
only supports PRISM II and above.  This is a major bummer, as it worked
great in FC6..

Robert

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 20:18 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Alastair Neil wrote:
> > Has anyone else experienced terrible desktop performance with F8.
> Yes. IBM Thinkpad T20 w/ 384 MB.
> Fedora Core 6 was running sweet. Never tried 7.
> Fedora 8 would go through periodic slugishness - and then speed up, 
> though never completely locking up as you are experiencing.
> 
> That combined with the gnome-keyring problems are what drove me to 
> CentOS - which works as well as Fedora Core 6 did (which makes sense 
> since they are same versions for much of the software)
> 
> What's really interesting - I've rebuilt a crapload of Fedora 8 and 
> livna for Fedora 8 src.rpm's for CentOS 5 and installed them - basically 
> providing everything I need that Fedora had that CentOS does not - and 
> the system is doing just dandy.
> 
> So the performance issue I'm guessing was (for me anyway) related to the 
> new gnome and related libs not liking and older laptop with lower memory.
> 
> Your box however sounds like resources wasn't the issue.
>