kernel 2.6 very sluggish

[Jason Montleon]

It's also easy to compile your own 2.6  Download it from www.kernel.org,
extract it in /usr/src, cd into the directory and run

make menuconfig (or config, or xconfig, or gconfig, or whatever your poison)
make bzImage
make install
make modules
make modules_install

'make install' will even update grub (the readme only mentioned lilo, but it
apparently handles either???).  Granted this takes a little longer than an
rpm but its pretty straight forward.  You just need to make sure you don't
mount devfs on boot, have ext3 support compiled in (not a module), and check
off any drivers that you will require.  Providing those things you should
have a working 2.6.0.  And honestly it seems much much much faster than the
2.4 kernel provided with Fedora.

I did enter the line:
none                    /sys                    sysfs   0 0

in /etc/fstab as a precaution based on everyone else's input on the list,
and created the directory /sys.

Other than that straight forward :)

Jason