On Thu, 20 May 2004 11:15:30 +0200 Raffaele BELARDI disseminated the following:
> > I never used Mdk 9, but I can tell you I was impressed with the speed of > > 10.0, > > both CE and Official. I revived an ancient (~6 years old) NT machine, > > Pentium > > II 400MHz, graphics card so old it's no longer supported by the vendor. I > > was > > surprised how responsive it is on such an old machine - practically > > instantaneous. It gets sluggish only if there are heavy background processes > > > > running, but that's to be expected. > > I'm not saying 10.0 is slow, I'm just saying it is slower than 9.2. I > believe the 2.6 kernel has been optimized for server environment, not > desktop. > > > Have you tried running top to see if there's something else chewing up your > > cpu? I've had some runaway kde processes a couple of times (most notably > > konqueror on certain web sites). 3D programs also kill my performance, > > because I only have s/w rendering. > > I use IceWM, it's much lighter than KDE or Gnome. No, nothing is eating > up CPU, it's just slower. It seems to be sending three copies of your mail to the list, too! Maybe that's what's slowing your system down... ;-) -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 12:36:25 up 1 day, 1:16, 8 users, load average: 0.75, 0.37, 0.27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "A Senate hearing into the abuse of Iraqi prisoners was told on Tuesday that Lt. Gen. William Boykin, an evangelical Christian under review for saying his God was superior to that of the Muslims, briefed a top Pentagon civilian official last summer on recommendations on ways military interrogators could gain more intelligence from Iraqi prisoners." -- Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters, May 15 2004
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