I've two, almost identical server ibm x236 dual 3ghz xeon, 4gb ram 4x73gb raid 10 successfully running fc5/gnome for 40-50 vnc users since years. I've installed fc8 to one of them, everything went up smootly but the "visual" response of the new fc8/gnome ( 32 bit ) is much slower than the "old" fc5/gnome ( 32 bit ). >From the same workstation vncviewer to fc8 shows for 1-2 seconds the gray background before the gdm login comes out and when logged in the graphic response is "slow" and this becomes even worse with OpenOffice apps and I'm the only user at the moment. vncviewer to fc5 "seems" twice as faster even if is used by 40 users. I've set up everything for the performance: solid background, second panel removed, useless applets removed but it still "looks slow". Any suggestion? Both x236 have an integrated Ati 7000. Can it be the new gnome/Xorg? best regards, LF
