First, this is all done at home, and not in a production environment. I used Fedora for a server, primarily to provide Samba shares. I noted the speed change when I was running Clonezilla to take hard drive images from another computer. The cloning software gives a active speed in 100's of MB per min. For Fedora it was about 650, while for CentOS it seems to be about 375. I did no other tests and this will always be one of two Linux systems on a LAN of 5 computers. One day I will get time to actually develop software on that system. Sorry to have omitted these facts at the outset. I see many of you are far more sophisticated in your environments. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:11:14PM -0500, Lou Arnold wrote: >> >> I am running a CentOS V5.3 and found that it is noticeably slower than >> Fedora 11, to my great surprise. >> > > Fedora cannot go too fast - or the hat would fly off. BTW, what version > of speed meter are you using? The latest versions are reporting > much better speeds. > > -- > Konstantin Olchanski > Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! > Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca > Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada > -- Lou.