-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 ;-) - -- ============ Lucas Vogel Key ID: 0A64769C3E2AC1E0E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7uSoapkdpw+KsHg4RAsHKAJ9Lptw4sTpGe6lw3gFdpSAzssqBLQCcCtyC K6LyxthuYKTH81iJNPKl89E= =5N79 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----