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I have a P4 3GHz PC and no matter what distro I install, if i use a 2.4 kernel, the machine runs fine, but if i use a 2.6 kernel, ...
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- 03-14-2006 #1Just Joined!
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2.4 vs. 2.6--2.6 extremely slow for everything
I have a P4 3GHz PC and no matter what distro I install, if i use a 2.4 kernel, the machine runs fine, but if i use a 2.6 kernel, the machine is incredibly slow with everything from booting, to normal use, like opening and switching b/w applications, to shutting down and logging on. I've tried Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian.
Any insight as to what may be the problem?
- 03-14-2006 #2Linux Guru
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Is it a pre-compiled kernel or did you tweak it yourself?
- 03-15-2006 #3Linux User
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could be hardware related or i've had a problem wiht my P4 2 GHz with acpi slowing it down.
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Originally Posted by lakerdonald
I did not tweak it, I just used the installation provided by the distro.
- 03-15-2006 #5Linux Guru
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If you want better performance, you should compile the kernel from scratch. You can get a copy at http://kernel.org, and some instructions are here.
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