From: Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com>
the other probable cause of sluggish performance in F18 is the old
debug
kernel issue. Remember, prior to Beta, most kernel builds have
debugging
enabled, which ever since 2.39 or so has been _very_ slow compared to
non-debug modes (much more so than used to be the case). Every so often
the kernel team does a build with debugging disabled, you might want to
grab one of those builds and see if it resolves the issue before filing
a bug. If I'm reading the changelog right, the latest non-debug build is
Perfect timing on that info. I finally got enough of my own
infrastructure (mirrors, build systems, etc.) together to spin a custom
Fedora 18 Live (using livecd-tools) and found it to be extremely slow
which had left me worried last night that something was fundamentally
different. (Extreme may sound harsh, but I'm running this on a lowly
PC/104 system with a Geode processor, which is slow under the best
circumstances.) I'll try making a spin later today using that kernel and
report back my findings.
Anyway, I was happy just to see it boot and appear mostly operational,
especially since I was unable to do the same using F17 to build a F17 Live
spin of the same sort.
Great job so far everyone!
--
John Florian