Discoverer 10.1.2.1 Formatting is SLOW

Hello,
When I try to format or edit headings or data, it takes FOREVER for it to come back. Is their a fix for this. Any info would be greatly appreciated. We are running the appserver on a pair of 4 processor 3.2 GHZ Intel boxes with 12 GB of memory in each. Operating system is Red Hat Linux 3.0ES
Thanks,
Carl

Is anyone else having this problem?

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