ah, buggrit. just when i was about to upgrade. anyone here have any experienced light to shed on this?
> <someone from another list> writes: > >>>Speaking of kill files, does anybody know why Red Hat 9 is so much >>>slower than previous versions? I installed it on the beater box that I >>>lend out and use for emergencies and it's unusable. > > > A few reasons: > > - - UTF-8 by default throughout the OS, including in the boot scripts; this > means odd and/or non-optimized collation rules etc. make sure you set > "LANG=C" instead of "LANG=en_US.utf8". > > - - some horrible wchar_t patches applied to various things. The RH9 > version of Tcl/Tk, for example, uses 4x the RAM for text areas, due to a > patch that makes them use wchar_t instead of char. This *massively* > screws up most useful Tk apps, like ExMH. > > - - apparently, RH9 came with block cache settings that are suboptimal. > A thread here: > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/users/2003-June/010158.html > and elsewhere notes that this helps: > > /sbin/sysctl -w vm.bdflush="30 500 0 0 2560 15360 60 20 0" > > WFM! > > My next install will run Debian ;) -- assuming Fedora doesn't sort it > all out. The UTF-8 fiasco especially pissed me off. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
