Thanks John and Paul for the suggestions. My swap partition ( 64 meg) seems
adequate as it was before.
I ran "setup" and removed a few non-relevant programs with no significant
improvement.
I guess I'll have to live with the more leisurely pace or else switch to a
less memory-demanding desktop.
At 06:55 AM 4/25/00 +0200, you wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>Since moving up to Mandrake 7 from M 6 I find that the loading time for
>>KDE, and even the Kmail program inside KDE takes much longer than it did in
>>Mandrake 6.
>>All I can think of is in the latter stage of install I agreed to the
>>default list of programs to be automatically booted at startup - programs
>>that I really would only use on certain occasions. Could it be that they
>>are clogging my 32 Meg ram?
>>If so, is there some way I could cut back on what is loaded at startup?
>
>I think the slowness is because the added things in the X-servers, but
>that is just an educated guess. To see what stuff is loaded on boot, you
>run
>
>setup
>
>as root, and in the "system services" you can select what will be loaded
>and omitted. make sure you don't kick out important stuff!! If you're not
>sure, ask here, or leave it alone!
>
>Paul
M.
