JB> Yes.. Linux loves as much memeroy as you can throw at it.. I went from 64Megs to 512Megs and their JB> was a night and day difference. KDE alone is a huge resource hog. Add anything else and you'll be JB> using your swap to its full potential and this is where things get really slow. Adding more memory JB> is worth the cost. You will see..trust what the list is telling you here.
JB> JBanks JB> --- Christian Herzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Stroller wrote: >> >> > >> > On 11 Oct 2003, at 9:58 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: >> > >> >> On Saturday 11 October 2003 05:28 pm, SMS WebMaster wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi >> >>> >> >>> Eveytime I hear about prelink I hear about KDE >> >>> >> >>> Does this mean prelink will not work with GNOME ? >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> I am a GNOME user and I think I will try to prelinking my system >> >>> but I am afraid it will break my system >> >> >> >> >> >> There used to be tremendous performance gains by running prelink >> >> across ones >> >> KDE installation... but since KDE 3.1.x... the programming efforts of >> >> the KDE >> >> team really shines and prelinking isn't all that necessary any more. >> > >> > >> > Gaaa! I just emerged KDE 3.1.4 the other day & it's sill slow as sin >> > on my little PII 400 laptop with only 64meg..! >> > I'd really like it to be faster, as it's my favorite Linux environment >> > - none of the screenshots I've seen of lightweight WMs appeal to me. >> > >> > I'm recompiling glibc with prelinking support at the moment - I think >> > I'm then likely to have to recompile all my libraries before prelink >> > will work. Is it worth the effort..? I think I've got to try, now I've >> > started. >> > >> > Stroller. >> > >> What do you expect form your machine? The CPU is by now quite old, but >> should be able to manage KDE quite fine though. >> The problem is your RAM. With 64MB your RAM will probably be filled with >> the usual linux stuff and KDE. I guess even without starting anything >> else your laptop will have to start swapping things out. >> I tried to run Knoppix (OK I know it need more RAM) on a PC quite >> similar to your setup and it was REALLY slow (around 5 minutes startup time) >> Adding 128MB of RAM helped a lot though. I recommend you do the same if >> you want to continue using KDE. >> >> Christian >> >> >> >> -- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >> JB> __________________________________ JB> Do you Yahoo!? JB> The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search JB> http://shopping.yahoo.com JB> -- JB> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Try FLUXBOX ... much faster then KDE or GNOME -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
