Paul G Rogers wrote these words on 04/20/06 10:43 CST: > Because I'm compiling for an old P1-233MMX, I'm trying to limit the > overhead, <snip> though I fear that will just bog-down my old CPU.
Just an FYI. I recently installed KDE-3.5.2 on a recent (20060322) LFS based system. Though not quite the dog your 233 would be, I find KDE runs just fine for what I use it for (no multimedia is used, other than basic ALSA functionality). In fact, this machine runs KDE, with Thunderbird and Firefox (4 tabs open) 24x7. Every hour cron looks to see if LFS or BLFS SVN has been updated, and if so, updates the sources and renders the book(s). KDE has been running now for: randy 7946 7899 0 Apr11 tty1 00:00:00 /bin/sh /opt/kde/bin/startkde randy 7949 1 0 Apr11 tty1 00:00:00 dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde randy 7977 1 0 Apr11 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit Running... looks like 9 days now. The machine is a 500mhz Pentium III (Katmai) with 512mb RAM and scsi disks. I'm not noticing any performance issues yet. On my last build of this box (about a year and a half ago LFS build), I would have to exit X Windows about every month or so and restart it, as things would be swapping out so badly, it would be frustrating to use. But having to restart X once a month (no reboot required), isn't that big of a deal. :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 11:32:00 up 25 days, 23:09, 2 users, load average: 1.09, 0.56, 0.31 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
