Well, this seems to be pretty par for the course from what I'm reading on the forums here, but feel free to chime in with any advice before I wipe my machine and install from scratch:

Machine:

generic P3 800 Mhz
512 Mb RAM
40 Gb HardDrive
Generic SB Soundcard

I've been running FC1 for the last year.. I loved it... installed with no problems very stable, quick even with all of the default services running, had minimal tweaking etc: Enter Fedora Core 3:

The machine is now basically slow... very slow... I've disabled all "unecessary" services. When I click on mozilla (or any other application), I can walk away grab a coke and the thing is still loading. Clicking from link to link is a chore for the machine. Forget about running Java in the browser... the browser locks and then ends up killing itself after a long long time. It chokes so bad, I can't even telnet into the thing from elsewhere to try to kill the process. In most cases, I am forced to press the reset button. All of this is under Gnome. Switching to KDE is a _little_ better but not much. Applications load a little faster, but I still have the mozilla java locking problem or I should just say Mozilla/Konquerer problem since the same thing happens in Konquerer as well indicating there could be a java problem. Since I don't know if this behavior is related to upgrading from fc1 to fc3, I basically feel forced to wipe the machine and install fc3 from scratch. I am a little apprehensive to do this since my fear is that I will go ahead with the install and just have the same problems. If so, I may just go back to Fedora 1 or try another distro. I've already backed up all of my important files in preparation for a wipe but I'm checking here first to see if anyone can give me any tips to help speed things up before I do it.

-cor-

Have you tried prelinking?

See
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml
for details. It's a guide for gentoo, but under fedora its basically the same.

Also: you could try to compile a custom kernel which is optimized for your environment (e.g. CPU). See
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-adv/kernel.htm
for instructions.


loony

Prelinking was enabled. I just think that it was an upgrade gone bad. I backed up my files, wiped the machine and installed FC3 from scratch. No problems now.

-cor-

It happens man. It's like upgrading from win. 98 to win. xp. I would reccomend reverting back to fc1.