> 1. with that many fonts, _everything_ kde slows to a crawl. launching > konqueror took upwards of a minute. i could open netscape 4.x, get the > info i needed, and close it before konqueror would start > sometimes. this went away when i dropped down to ~8 or so tt > fonts. maybe a bug in xfs-xtt? May also be to do with ext2 having trouble reading large directories. Put enough files in a directory on an ext2 and ls takes minutes, not milliseconds.