Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> At 12:35 PM 6/14/2001 -0400, Mike Badger wrote:
>
> >I've seen all the recent threads, plenty of theories floating around. I like
> >to blame it on the rain personally.
> >
> >Seriously though, this is what I noticed from all the traffic on the list, in
> >a nutshell. People who upgraded to 2.4.5 and the issue is not present.
> >Also people running 2.2.x kernels do not appear to be having the performance
> >related problem.
> >
> >That is the extent of what I think I know at this point. Still plenty of
> >time to be
> >proven wrong or to find the cause.
> >
> >If there are users on this list, who are experiencing performance
> >problems, and wish
> >to upgrade to 2.4.5, I would be interested to know the results.
>
> i'm running 2.4.5 and still have issues. interestingly, my (admittedly
> subjective) impression
> is that when i went from 2.4.3 to 2.4.5 it got much better.
I'm sure there must be many people who have upgraded who are
NOT experiencing the slowness problem. I'm one of them. On
my slow home machine (a classic Pentium MMX 233 with 128MB
RAM), I upgraded Redhat 6.2 to 7.1 and initially installed
the stock win4lin version 3 with their kernel via download.
My old installation of Win98se still worked fine, although
perhaps a bit slower than before. --but none of the very
slow response behaviors reported by Dan and others.
I then recompiled my kernel using the 2.4.5 from kernel.org
and the generic patch from Netraverse. My reason for doing
this was that there were some things in my system that were
not working after I updated linux (such as my Hauppauge TV
card), and so I needed to go back to a custom kernel. Had
nothing to do with win4lin.
Everything is still working just fine, after finally getting
my kernel customization right.
I have not yet had the time to go through the same process
on my office machine, which is a better machine. I hope I
do not encounter the dreaded problem.
-Bill-
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Bill Gurley, Supervisor of Technical Services
Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-1600
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