I think the swap is too little. I was running KDE on a Cyrix PR-120 with 16mb
of RAM and 100mb swap and it worked fine. Only when I opened some 4 Netscape
and two kvirc windows and also kfm the system started to slow down. So try
making that swap partition bigger.
On Fri, 28 May 1999, you wrote:
> Hello everyone:
>
> Just installed Mandrake 5.3 a couple of days ago, and I have been
> configuring it the last couple of days (BTW, thanks Brian for the tip
> with the mouse)... But it seems that KDE is working sluggishly slow
> (Slower than MSOffice 97 on a Pentium 100, if you take my meaning)
>
> Is my AMDK6 (200Mhz) with 32MB of Ram too old for KDE? (works fine in
> the _other_ OS)
>
> I have a 40Mb swap partition, and it seems to be in use all the time.
> Gimp refuses to run, Netscape takes forever to download a simple, almost
> all text webpage (yahoo)... It doesnt seem right.
>
> Your thoughts in the matter will be helpful
>
>
> Jose Alberto Abreu
>
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