On 21 Feb 2002 20:42:04 +0000 Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Since Galeon is based on GTK, Konqueror on KDE & Evo on GNOME, if you launch them all at once, you will be pulling 2 _huge_ libraries in at once. Instead of Evo, try Sylpheed. Instead of Konq, try gmc. This way, you won't need KDE, and you _probably_ won't need GNOME. (A reboot to flush that stuff out wouldn't hurt.) > 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. "top" is your _best_ friend... > Is there a URL of useful diagnostics? I don't want to pepper this list > with questions unless I've at least had a chance to go through some > performance diagnostics but I have no idea how to tell what apps or > services are slowing the system down. > > So - any preferred url's for semi-skilled people like me? I don't know about URLs for performance, except google. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | 484,246 sq mi are needed for 6 billion people to live, 4 ! ! persons per lot, in lots that are 60'x150'. | ! That is ~ California, Texas and Missouri. ! ! Alternatively, France, Spain and The United Kingdom. | +------------------------------------------------------------+
