KDE and speed

[Lucas Vogel]

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I am using Maxtor 7200 rpm disks on an ext2 file system. I have 136.34 MB of 
swap space, 99% of it untouched. Opening and closing the applications doesn't 
seem to make much, if any, difference when loading apps. 1-3 seconds seems 
kind of long; if I use other applications they seem to snap along quite 
quickly. Even other GUIs seem to go along quite nicely(can't say for sure for 
gnome, but I'll check it out - I only use that for my vnc connection). I 
would almost go so far as to say that I seem to get the same kde response 
speed that I would using CLI commands from a ssh login at work. 

Maybe I shouldn't complain about something I get for free, maybe I should 
spend the time bitching about it to do some system-level tweaking and try to 
find the problem. I dunno; I just thought I'd see if anyone else was finding 
themselves in the same situation? :)

Lucas

> > > > to run so doggedly slow. I have an Athlon 1Ghz and 256MB of memory,
> > > > yet when I go to open Konqueror or Kmail it takes 2-3 seconds for it
> > > > to load up. Is it just me or what? Do I need to tweak something
> > > > somewhere?
> > >
> > > Which distro are you using?
>
> 2-3 seconds does not seem long to me.  But maybe I am misunderstanding
> you.  I would also ask what type of disks you are using and how much
> swap space you have configured.  The first time that you start up Kmail
> or Konqueror, etc. it has to be found then loaded from disk.  Try
> starting it up, killing it and then restarting it... see if that works
> faster.  If it does then the bottleneck is either the disk and it's
> speed ot possibly the file lookup.  That is my guess, only a guess ;-)

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