i have been having a few issues with 2.4.26, i just upgraded to it, and my hardware isnt liking me too much, scince ive been in the new kernel, quake doesnt load as fast, its weird because the kernel before i switched had it on a pIII-p4-celeron family option, when i have a athlon xp2000+ (1.6ghz) processor, did i miss something in the kernel config? or is there some good tweaking i left out for my processor? because i play quake alot and i noticed a pretty big slow-down, if you will, when loading the map,weapons,etc, i find it odd, any help is appreciated, thanks!

Did you enable SMP? I've found that, even on dual-CPU systems, the SMP kernel can be slower than the UP kernel with certain apps.