Performance on Red Hat 8/9/Fedora Core 1 is terrible, compared to other OSes.
Are you using the default $LANG setting? Do this:
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echo $LANG |
If it contains "utf8", then that's probably the problem. Change it so it does not contain "utf8" (see RedHatMalformedUtf8), and the performance issues will clear up.
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