AMD Phenom Tripple core on Fedora 10
 

Hey ,

I am using Fedora 10 x64 , and i am running them in an AMD Phenom X3 tripple core machine, with 4 GB RAM . But sometimes the machine is becoming slow . and its seems like the processor is less capable of handling fedora 10. is there a driver for the processor that needs to be installed on the machine ?

Please let me know

Thanks
Peeths

Why nearly everyone blames the CPU for things like these. Well, Fedora always ran slow on my machine, I had Celeron 600 MHz and Fedora 3 ran hell slow on it, then I have AMD Athlon 64 2800+ and Fedora 7 again runs hell slow with frequent slow-motion jerks and now I have Pentium 4 in office and we have CentOS ( based off RHEL, RHEL is based off Fedora) and again my machine sometimes gives me jerks and goes to slow-mode many times.

Try switching to some better distro like Debian or Arch. First try to run a Knoppix or Ubuntu Live CD and if that CD runs slow again then there is some hardware problem. Most probably it will not, which means you need to get-off from RPM based package management, try Arch or Debian. Many will not agree with me but that is what I have observed.

I already have have Ubuntu running on my machine , but it is a 32bit and it is comparatively fast.

at the same time , i also have a fedora 9 32 bit running on a Intel Pentium Duo core machine . and it gives a very good performance .

I don't think this is the issue with the distro.

And when i was using fedora 1 to fedora 8 , i didn't have any issues like the slowness, but those were 32 bit OS. this is the first time that i am running a 64 bit OS ( Fedora 10 ). and in 64 bit also Fedora 9 didn't give me any problem. and also red hat 9 that was also really fast , i remember ... it was a long time ago.

and i have a pretty descent graphics card to handle all the display items ( nVidia Geforce 8500 GT with 512 MB dedicated DDR2 Video RAM ). So my guess is that , this is not the issue with the distro .

Thanks
Peeths

Well

You can download live-cds to stress test your processor and memtest your memory.

When you installed all that heavy hardware did you also install a quality, heavy PSU such as a Corsair HX520 or HX620 depending on how many other devices you have running?

Have you considered installing some other 64-bit linux as a test, such as the new openSUSE 11.1, to see if it is as slow as fedora?