Guillermo Belli wrote:
> 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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32MB of ram + 40MB swap gives you 72MB of memory.....
I started KDE with a 486/66 with 16MB and it wasn't that slow....
Do you have anything in auto start?
