this problem reminds me of what i have on my system (my current FC2 seems to be ok), and that was the application that was checking the CD (magicdev in Gnome, autorun in KDE) was interfering with my disk I/O, causing large applications (OO, mozilla) to take forever to come up. As i just installed FC2 last night, it appears to be fixed, i would cautiously add. So perhaps i'm suggesting the wrong test. But the test would be to kill autorun or magicdev, and open mozilla again. Another test is (as root) to check the performance of the HD, e.g. hdparm -t /dev/hda in the 'bad' mode i got consistently varying (and low) numbers, like 8-13 MB/sec. That may not look all that bad, if the default is more like 22-25, but it made a big impact on my performance. peter On Thu, 20 May 2004, davide wrote: > I'm using fc2 right now at work, i tried to install it at home (i > already have fc1 on a laptop and it works really fine) but i discovered > that the new distro is hopelessly slow... > > I've a PIII 1000 with 256 Mb RAM and it's impossible to run fedora. Many > times kde crashes withouth reason, Mozilla starts in 10 (i'm not joking) > 10 minutes... > > I believe the problem is Xorg, anyone has an idea on how to optimize it? > In this way i can't simply use the laptop, it's the slowest machine i've > ever seen! :( > > >
