you know i had the same problem/hardware. it went away when i increased the 
size of my swap file. 

if you really want to get rid of all the gnome/kde rpms

rpm -e `rpm -qa |grep kde`

0.02c

HTH

---lem

On Tuesday 13 March 2001  8:45 pm, you wrote:
> hello all
>
> using mandrake 7.2 on 64mb
> gnome & kde performs awfully (hd keeps on reading, is that thrashing?)
>
> i want to uninstall the 2 but what packages?
> also, if i uninstall them, e.g. if i uninstall kde, will
> those k* applications still work on bare X or icewm?
> could i "downgrade" to the kde|gnome (only the wm) in rh6.2 but
> still run the newer apps?
>
> extra, i have rpms of sources here (for rh6.2) & i have tried
> compiling vim & installed it (before i installed mdk),
> does `make install` leave a log, because i can't `rpm -q -f` the files.
> is there a way to modify whatever database rpm is using to
> reflect those manually added things (e.g. make file "f" be associated
> with package "p" so that when i uninstall "p", "f" would also be
> deleted)
>
> tia
>
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