le mar 22-01-2002 à 00:53, Derek Simkowiak a écrit : > > OVERVIEW > > My newbie / Mac heads / Windoze losers tell me that 'Linux is > slow'. I tell them they are full of it. Then they show me. > > Click on the Gnome foot icon (e.g., "Start" button). On a 233 MHz > box, it can take > 1 second for the menu to come up. On an AMD K6/2 > 450MHz, it can take .2-.4 seconds to come up, a noticable and distracting > delay. On a PIII 1 GHz, it can take .05 - .1 seconds to come up, > something that does NOT happen under Windows on the same box. Since this > is the most-used button, the entire desktop (and hence, 'Linux') seems > slow. > > The cause? Gnome re-reads the menus from disk at every click. > > > WORKAROUND > > Gnome Control Center -> Panel -> Menu -> "Keep menus in memory"
I see a pb here : if you install a package, maybe your menu will not be update. Does menu force gnome/KDE/whatherwmyouwant menu regeneration when a package is installed ? > Since Red Hat set that to be the default setting, they have seen a > drastic decrease in the number of complaints about Gnome speed. Mandrake > should also make that the default. > > > [dereks@dev dereks]$ cat /etc/mandrake-release > Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 > > [dereks@dev dereks]$ rpm -q gnome-core gnome-libs > gnome-core-1.4.0.4-16mdk > gnome-libs-1.4.1.2-6mdk > > > --Derek > > > -- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/linux_wizard/index.html - Dijkstra me hait problement. -- Linus Torvalds, (dans kernel/sched.c)
