Adventures with Fedora in Biotech
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Fri Feb 13 21:38:05 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 19:43, Hugh Caley wrote:
> I work for a biotech company in California. I have Fedora Core 1
> running comfortably on my desktop, with sound, Xinerama, Gnome and
> Windowmaker, etc. It all seems to work pretty well. Now I'm running
> kernel 2.6.1 as well.
>
> We had problems with it in a server context, however. We had set up a
> couple of dual 2.8 mhz Xeon boxes with 4 gig of ram for running
> bioinformatic perl scripts. The results were disappointing; in many
> cases the scripts would run at half the speed they would run on other
> slightly slower (but still Xeon 2.x) servers which were running RedHat 8
> or 9.
The 2166 update kernel has a lot of VM improvements especially for boxes
with highmem. Its possible this would have fixed your problem.
Dave
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