I do not know the root of your problem, but I am running 7.2 with KDE 2.1 and it is lightning fast.
I can open 5 or 6 different functions like Konqueror on line with Kppp in a 56k modem, have rpmdrake going,
open a console and run kedit or kpackage and be downloading a file off the net, while at the same time installing
another file previously d/l'd. Why you might ask? Just to see if I could. Anyway, I saw no difference in the speed
of the various actions as opposed to if they were working by themselves, except of course for the downloads, which
individually slow down due to the bandwidth available. Something else is eating your lunch, it is not LM 7.2 or linux.
I have seen it suggested that you may not have the monitor optimized, or you might need to tune your harddrive.
Keep looking for the culprit cause the Mandrake is well worth the effort. Dennis M.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1
You know, I understand all this but you'd think that you could run all
typical daemons without adversely effecting the performance of your machine.
At home I run both 7.2 and W2k, I counted 40 services running on W2K and the
machine works fine. However, my 7.2 is a bit sluggish. I tried to disable
as many daemons as I could but it had little effect.
My impression is its the window manager/environment. It's kind of like you
can't have your cake and eat it too type of thing - you can't have a wm/env
that is both full featured and spunky. I'm sure they are working on it
though...
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1
take a very close look at the programs that are running automatically at
boot time. That could be the source of your problems.
Abe
> ------------ Original Message -----------
> From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 15:29:08 -0700
>
> I ran " $ free" and saw that I was heavily into my swap, to the tune of
> around 227 M. I switched to Gnome and everything is running much
> faster. I've been monitoring my memory / swap usage, and the most swap
> I've used in Gnome is about 40M running Moz 0.8. That program eats up
> buffer / cache too.
>
> The thing that's really weird, is a buddy of mine is using 7.2 and KDE
> on a 200 PI with 64M and his system runs fine. I think somehow I must
> have sprung a memory leak or something. Oh well, I'm actually starting
> to like Gnome a lot. It's much more stable than it was a couple of
> years ago.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
>
> Glen Leinweber wrote:
>
> > Michael,
> > This is a guess... I wonder if 64MEG is close to the
> > limit for 7.2? Perhaps 7.1 fits KDE and one or two apps
> > fits into 64M without going to swap. Once you get into swap,
> > things really slow down.
> > I've often heard that more RAM often solves speed
> > problems.
> >
> >
>
>
