Fedora 2 Desktop Performance

[Thijs]

Tim and Alison wrote:

> I have a fedora 2 machine running on a PII 400 with 325meg of Ram.  
> Since I rebuilt the box from FC1 it has felt sluggish and not as 
> fast.  I am running xfce4 and a mixture of Gnome and KDe applications. 
> I thought that the 2.6 kernel was ment to be slicker but there is a 
> noticeable lag when I click on an icon.  I even have had rhythembox 
> stall on me which is something I never had on FC1.
>
> What settings could I chose to get a better response for a desktop box.
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Tim

You can disable services of daemons by running system-config-services. 
Recompiling the kernel also helps.

Thijs
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