On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 19:43, Hugh Caley wrote: > I work for a biotech company in California. I have Fedora Core 1 > running comfortably on my desktop, with sound, Xinerama, Gnome and > Windowmaker, etc. It all seems to work pretty well. Now I'm running > kernel 2.6.1 as well. > > We had problems with it in a server context, however. We had set up a > couple of dual 2.8 mhz Xeon boxes with 4 gig of ram for running > bioinformatic perl scripts. The results were disappointing; in many > cases the scripts would run at half the speed they would run on other > slightly slower (but still Xeon 2.x) servers which were running RedHat 8 > or 9. The 2166 update kernel has a lot of VM improvements especially for boxes with highmem. Its possible this would have fixed your problem. Dave
