Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Apr 24 14:05:43 UTC 2013


On 04/24/13 21:58, Regina Anger wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Because F17 and F18 installers have bugs when installing with encryption enabled for "/" on my notebook (and the F18 respin does not start installation at all) I decided to give F19-alpha a try.
>
> However, the system runs very slow (compared to F17 on the same notebook) - XOrg performs poorly and larger applications (firefox) take a lot more time for startup than on F17.
>
> I guess this is because of debugging options (run-time checks etc) enabled. Is there any way to avoid this additional debugging overhead somehow, like some kernel parameters or ....
>
>

Yes, it has been mentioned on the "test" list several times.  It has been suggested to try adding 'slub_debug=-' to the kernel parameters.


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