Re: Diagnosing poor performance
* Patrick Kirk (patrick@kirks.net) spake thusly:
> Hi all,
>
> My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400
> celeron processor.
>
> I'm running enlightenment with konqueror for file management, galeon for
> web and evolution for mail.
>
> Performance is appalling. Konqueror takes 13 seconds to launch. Galeon
> takes 10 seconds. Evolution takes 15 seconds. Even Eterm takes over 10
> seconds. Switching between apps takes forever and involves screens
> freezing.
>
> My suspicion is that konqueror runs a ton of kde stuff, evolution
> likewise for gnome stuff and that enlightenment may use more than a
> processor cycle or ten thousand. But I don't know really.
Your suspicion is correct. Buy a better laptop, or get rid of all
the bloated apps you listed above and use mc for file management,
lynx for web and mutt for mail.
Dima
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