> 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!

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John Florian