> Norm Deane wrote: > > I recently upgraded my RH9 (Dell Inspiron 8200/) to FC2. > The upgrade > > went well but after upgrading I've noticed that applications take > > forever (some take 5+ > > minutes) to start. Once they are running they perform ok. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Norm > > Check hard Disk DMA settings? > > Although in general, like Windows, I find each new iteration > of Redhat (Now Fedora) is slower than the last...sigh. >> What kind of application and what else is running on >> the background? Eclipse (a Java IDE), Firefox (mozilla based we browser), Thunderbird (mozilla based mail reader). "service --status-all" yields... ALSA sound driver loaded. ALSA sound driver not locked! anacron (pid 1904) is running... atd (pid 1912) is running... Configured Mount Points: ------------------------ Active Mount Points: -------------------- crond (pid 1680) is running... cupsd (pid 1691) is running... gpm (pid 1670) is running... i8kbuttons (pid 1201) is running... Table: filter Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:domain ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:domain ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ssh ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp echo-request limit: avg 5/min burst 5 ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED ACCEPT all -- anywhere localhost.localdomain ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:8001 ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:webcache ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:6881 Chain FORWARD (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination irattach is stopped lisa is stopped dbus-daemon-1 (pid 1921) is running... Usage: /etc/init.d/mysql start|stop|restart Active SMB mountpoints: /export/development /export/javadev /export/mis /export/home/deanen /export/maven netplugd is stopped Configured devices: lo eth0 eth1 ppp0 Currently active devices: lo eth0 rpc.mountd is stopped nfsd is stopped rpc.rquotad is stopped rpc.statd (pid 1495) is running... nscd is stopped ntpd is stopped cardmgr (pid 1572) is running... portmap (pid 1476) is running... postmaster is stopped The random data source exists rcd is stopped rpc.idmapd (pid 1520) is running... saslauthd is stopped sendmail is stopped smbd is stopped nmbd is stopped snmpd is stopped snmptrapd is stopped sshd (pid 1648) is running... /etc/init.d/supermount stop syslogd (pid 1454) is running... klogd (pid 1458) is running... winbindd is stopped xfs (pid 1895) is running... xinetd (pid 1661) is running... ypbind is stopped __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com