Re: Fedora 29 (and 28) very slow

2018-11-26 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/26/18 3:32 PM, Ron Sigal wrote: > Well, I downloaded both Fedora 28 and 29 a couple of weeks ago ... Uhm, not the point. Do a "uname -r" on the fast F28 machine and the same on the slow F28 and F29 machines. It may be that the fast F28 machine is running an older kernel that doesn't have the

Re: Fedora 29 (and 28) very slow

2018-11-26 Thread Ron Sigal
Well, I downloaded both Fedora 28 and 29 a couple of weeks ago ... On 11/26/18 6:14 PM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:45:48 - Ron Sigal wrote: I'm just bewildered. Does anyone have any suggestions? Spectre and Meltdown kernel changes are reputed to slow things down, bu

Re: Fedora 29 (and 28) very slow

2018-11-26 Thread alan
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:45:48 - > Ron Sigal wrote: > >> I'm just bewildered. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > Spectre and Meltdown kernel changes are reputed to slow > things down, but I don't know if it would be that much. They have removed some of the Spectre and Meltdown patches from

Re: Fedora 29 (and 28) very slow

2018-11-26 Thread Ron Sigal
Hmmm. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/09/meltdown_spectre_slowdown/ says "Red Hat has clocked the patch performance impact as ranging from one to 20 per cent ." -Ron On 11/26/18 6:04 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:45:48 - R

Re: Fedora 29 (and 28) very slow

2018-11-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:45:48 - Ron Sigal wrote: > I'm just bewildered. Does anyone have any suggestions? Spectre and Meltdown kernel changes are reputed to slow things down, but I don't know if it would be that much. ___ users mailing list -- users@

Re: Fedora 29 (and 28) very slow

2018-11-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/26/18 2:45 PM, Ron Sigal wrote: I'm having a strange experience upgrading Fedora. I was running Fedora 24, and I upgraded to Fedora 29, one release at a time. After upgrading, I found that the Resteasy testsuite, which normally runs in about 15 minutes, now takes about 45 minutes. A coll

Fedora 29 (and 28) very slow

2018-11-26 Thread Ron Sigal
I'm having a strange experience upgrading Fedora. I was running Fedora 24, and I upgraded to Fedora 29, one release at a time. After upgrading, I found that the Resteasy testsuite, which normally runs in about 15 minutes, now takes about 45 minutes. A colleague suggested I do a clean install, wh