On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:10:25AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > BTW, what do you mean by "disable UTF"? > Other than setting LANG=C what else have you done to tune the system? > remove all the locales-related packages (remove anything I didn't specifically need: disk space is limited too). Sure, a 200 MHz box would give faster (twice?) bash response than a 486DX4-100MHz.