> From: Adam Williamson <awilliam@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
> 3.6.0-0.rc2.git0.1:
>
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=348688
>
> so give that one a shot.
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