Re: slooooooow

[David Bishop <tech@bishop.dhs.org>]

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On Monday 29 July 2002 04:52 am, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On Saturday 27 July 2002 23:24, John Gay wrote:
> > On Sat 27 Jul 2002 21:59, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> > > Yow
> > >
> > > Just put my hd (maxtor 40 gigs 5400 rpm for therecord - that's also the
> > > one I swap to) into a p133 (48 MB ram) because my athlon cpu burnt.
> >
> > This is your problem ^^^^^^^
> >
> > KDE requires quite a large amount of memory to run. If you consider that
> > X takes at least 16M to itself that does not leave much for KDE to use.
> >
> > My daughter is running KDE2.1 on a 166PentiumMMX with 64M and get
> > 'useable' performance from it. I would not even like to try running KDE
> > in less than 64M.
>
> I would rather say that the bottleneck is the software :-) . I remember
> having konqueror, kmail, pan (gnome stuff), kword, then some instant
> messaging clients and a ton of Eterms open. Now I can bring the box to it's
> knees with just kmail alone.

Basically, something's wrong.  This should not be happening.  KDE3 *is* leaner 
than KDE2, with (iirc) only a couple exceptions, having to do with fonts (aa, 
true-type, something like that).  Maybe try playing around with that 
(en/dis-abling AA, not using tt, etc).  

Good luck!

- -- 
A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in. 
  --Kim Alm, a.s.r 
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