On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:34:13PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB > of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have complained that an upgrade from Sarge to > Etch has slowed their machine down considerably. This is irrespective > of the Window Manager. Is there any particular reason why this could > be happening? I could not pin down anything in particular which could > cause this to happen. maybe its a memory issue? My understanding is that the etch kernel is much bigger than the sarge kernel. that is entirely anecdotal as I have no sarge box to compare to. A
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